Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
Chess is the whetstone of the mind.
"It is the business of the ruler to give orders and of the ruled to obey."
β Socrates, according to Xenophon
β Socrates, according to Xenophon
Forwarded from Esoteric Dixie Dharma
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evilsβno, nor the human race, as I believeβand then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
β Plato, The Republic
β Plato, The Republic
The Ottoman traveler Evliya Γelebi's story about eating honey in a Circassian village
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Forwarded from Lance's Legion
"Empires are not maintained by timidity."
β Tacitus
β Tacitus
Forwarded from Franssen
Ignore your dreams at your own peril.
"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's."
β Carl Jung
β Carl Jung
βIf you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isnβt part of ourselves doesnβt disturb us.β
β Herman Hesse
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β Herman Hesse
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βNeither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.β
β Julius Evola
β Julius Evola
βLong ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.β
β Oswald Spengler
β Oswald Spengler
Forwarded from Lance's Legion
βDo not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.β
β Virgil
β Virgil
Forwarded from Esoteric Dixie Dharma
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
β Plato
β Plato