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.
A painting depicting the Battle of Gaugamela between the Army of Macedon led by King Alexander III “the Great” of Macedon and the Army of the Persian Empire led by King Darius III of Persia. This battle resulted in a glorious victory for Alexander the Great and is often regarded as his greatest battlefield victory.
“Battle of Alexander versus Darius” by Pietro da Cortona
“Battle of Alexander versus Darius” by Pietro da Cortona
Forwarded from 🌲𝕳𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖑𝖉 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕷𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖌🌲
“The Overman…who has organised the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life’s terrors, he affirms life without resentment.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
“What we long for is the infinite.”
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
I have dedicated this life to nothing less than absolute Victory.