Forge Fighting Sayoc Tribe

Isang Kalipunan

[bloodedcelt]

[philosophicalconservatism]

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Mark Van Doren (1894-1972) American poet (via philosophicalconservatism)

[senecasredoubt]

The power of wisdom is better shown by a display of calmness in the midst of provocation. While injury is serious, insult is only so to the thin-skinned, for men are not harmed but angered by words. Yet there are those who will endure pain and even death rather than insulting words, like children provoked by words that are unpleasant to their ears.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Moral Essays (via senecasredoubt)

[philosophicalconservatism]

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

Thomas Sowell (1931-) American economist. (via philosophicalconservatism)

[forgefighting]

If you’re harmless you’re not virtuous, you’re just harmless, you’re like a rabbit; a rabbit isn’t virtuous, it just can’t do anything except get eaten! That’s not virtuous. If you’re a monster, and you don’t act monstrously, then you’re virtuous.

Jordan Peterson

[quotes-shape-us]

It’s my belief that history is a wheel. ‘Inconstancy is my very essence,’ says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don’t complain when you’re cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it’s also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away.

Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (via quotes-shape-us)

[philosophicalconservatism]

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don’t… that should tell us something.

Eugene O'Neill (188-1953)  American playwright. (via philosophicalconservatism)

[senecasredoubt]

In days of peace the soldier performs maneuvers, throws up earthworks with no enemy in sight, and wearies himself by gratuitous toil, in order that he may be equal to unavoidable toil. If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes. Such is the course which those men have followed who, in their imitation of poverty, have every month come almost to want, that they might never recoil from what they had so often rehearsed.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Moral Epistles XVIII (on Festivals and Fasting)

[philosophicalconservatism]

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) British historian (via philosophicalconservatism)

[monarchofmurder]

[radicalanarchism]

Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

Aristotle (via moralanarchism)

[forgefighting]

“Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

Machiavelli

[forgefighting]

Virtus was a specific virtue in Ancient Rome. It carries connotations of valor, manliness, excellence, courage, character, and worth, perceived as masculine strengths (from Latin vir, "man"). It was thus a frequently stated virtue of Roman emperors, and was personified as a deity—Virtus.

[forgefighting]

But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood, restless harbingers of violence and bloodshed, knowing no other path....

Robert E. Howard 

[forgefighting]

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

Voltaire

[forgefighting]

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Thucydides

[forgefighting]

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

Robert E. Howard