Forwarded from A Knight’s Path
"We the aristocrats, we are the good, the beautiful, the happy!"
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Forwarded from A Knight’s Path
"I am an aristocrat. I love liberty, I hate equality."
- John Randolph of Roanoke
- John Randolph of Roanoke
Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
— Calvin Coolidge
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
— Calvin Coolidge
Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
"Virtue is something sublime, elevated and regal, invincible, inexhaustible. Pleasure is lowly, servile, weak, transitory. It does duty in brothels and taverns; indeed, it dwells there. You will find virtue in a temple, in the forum, in the senate house, standing before the walls, covered in dust and browned by the sun, with callused hands. Pleasure you will most often find hiding, keeping to the shadows around the bathhouses and steam rooms and places that have reason to fear official inspectors, soft and weak, dripping with wine and unguents, pallid or rouged, and embalmed with chemicals."
— Seneca
— Seneca
Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
“Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.”
— Plotinus
— Plotinus
Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
“To be a man, is not a fact, but a task.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
— Søren Kierkegaard
Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
If victory were assured, there’d be no glory in achieving it.
It’s in the decision of agony that we discover the glory we crave.
It’s in the decision of agony that we discover the glory we crave.