Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.
Søren Kierkegaard
Tag: quotes
Patriotism
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
G.K Chesterton
USAF TACP
If you’re wondering… If you’re wondering if someone would notice if you weren’t around anymore, they would. Someone would notice. If you’re in your winter, find someone who is in their summer.
Mike Malarsie
Shardbearer
No one ever accomplished anything by being content with who they were. We accomplish great things by reaching toward who we could become.
Adolin Kholin
Hiero
The most cautious explanation of Hiero’s silence would be the suggestion that he does not know what the wise intend…he knows and understands the goals of the brave and the just as well as they themselves do. But he has never been a wise man: he does not know wisdom from his own experience. He realizes that wisdom is a virtue, a power, hence a limit to the tyrant’s power, and therefore a danger to the tyrant’s rule.
Leo Strauss, On Tyranny
Photography
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge — and, therefore, like power.
Susan Sontag
Man Thinking
In the right state, he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson