“I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
- Jack London
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
- Jack London
“The common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.”
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
“I wish men would begin by loving themselves: everything else follows from that. To be sure, as soon as one does this one is seen as the object of the rabble's resentment: for this is what they do not forgive: 'What? A man who loves himself?”
― Nietzsche, The Will to Power
― Nietzsche, The Will to Power
Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
“I teach No to all that makes weak—that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens! I teach Yes to that which concentrates strength! I teach Yes to that which exalts pride!”
― Nietzsche, The Will to Power
― Nietzsche, The Will to Power
Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
You were born to do great things. You were born to establish the reality which you, yourself, have desired so secretly in the small hours of the night. So intense is the light you harbor for the world, so consequential is the effect of your passion, the world trembles at the very groan your chest makes; the very same which struggles to contain the inferno called your soul. A cascade of Will hemmed in, warhorses penned in tight and in ever-closing stables, each seeking the very moment of opportunity to cascade out into the world and form it in your vital design.
Destiny hemmed in with 'No', with a pernicious design to lessen you and stifle your mission. All your life you have been told, been taught, been smeared with this excretion named 'No'.
Yet, in the cool breeze of a summer night, you hear the echo of a word, a world, you long forgot. A whisper carried on such soft breezes that when it's spark floats and lands, like a feather on your soul, you languidly expected the same nothing, the same No, you have eternally known all your life.
And yet...
"Yes!"
Destiny hemmed in with 'No', with a pernicious design to lessen you and stifle your mission. All your life you have been told, been taught, been smeared with this excretion named 'No'.
Yet, in the cool breeze of a summer night, you hear the echo of a word, a world, you long forgot. A whisper carried on such soft breezes that when it's spark floats and lands, like a feather on your soul, you languidly expected the same nothing, the same No, you have eternally known all your life.
And yet...
"Yes!"
Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
"Who said that life is a dream? Life is a game."
— D'Annunzio
— D'Annunzio
"If a man has no sons, he has no full right to speak about the needs of a single matter of state. He has to have risked with the others what is most precious to him; only then is he bound firmly to the state. One must consider the happiness of one's descendants, and so, above all, have descendants, in order to take a proper, natural part in all institutions and their transformation. The development of higher morality depends on a man's having sons: this makes him unselfish, or, more exactly, it expands his selfishness over time, and allows him seriously to pursue goals beyond his individual lifetime."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
— Plato, "The Republic"
— Plato, "The Republic"
“Did not Rollo my ancestor, the founder of our nation, with your progenitors, conquer at Paris the king of the Franks in the heart of his dominions; nor could he obtain any respite until he humbly offered possession of the country which from you is called Normandy, with the hand of his daughter? Did not your fathers take prisoner the king of the French, and detain him at Rouen till he restored Normandy to your Duke Richard, then a boy; with this stipulation, that in every conference between the King of France and the Duke of Normandy, the duke should have his sword by his side, while the king should not be allowed so much as a dagger? This concession your fathers compelled the great king to submit to, as binding for ever.”
- William the Conqueror, King of England and Duke of Normandy, speaking to his army before the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066
- William the Conqueror, King of England and Duke of Normandy, speaking to his army before the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066