“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”
— Patton
— Patton
"The lawgiver must establish common meals and gymnastics and hunting for the young, and not allow them to live softly, but train them for war. For young men are naturally prone to form bands (hetaireiai) and clubs, and unless directed to noble ends, they will turn to drinking, partying and degeneration."
— Plato
— Plato
"What does it matter if I am defeated in space, if I know that I am destined to triumph in time?"
— D'Annunzio
— D'Annunzio
Life is hard. That’s what life is. And these challenges that you face, they’re gonna do their best to take you down. Do not let them. Stand up. Dig in. Line up those problems and confront them. Face them. Fight them.
JOCKO
JOCKO
“If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.”
Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision
Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision
End of the Greek Golden Age. Decline in public life as civic revenues dried up, as cities shifted from taxing oligarchs to borrowing from them, with interest. As debts mounted, public amenities & common lands were sold off to private creditors -often Persian or Macedonian agents.
“You should love peace as a means to new wars—and the short peace more than the long. I do not advise you to work, but to fight. I do not advise you to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!”
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
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“The life of the front community was founded on discipline, which destroyed all arbitrariness and inserted the individual into the whole.”
— Jünger, Fire and Blood
— Jünger, Fire and Blood
“A nation is not the sum of individuals, but a historical-spiritual being that comes to itself in its leadership.”
— Heidegger, Rektoratsrede
— Heidegger, Rektoratsrede
"The most beautiful thing is necessarily tyrannical."
— Paul Valéry, Notebooks
— Paul Valéry, Notebooks