Lieutenant

“The first question is by no means whether we are content with ourselves, but whether we are content with anything at all. If we affirm one single moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things, and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event – and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

“The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.”
― Hilaire Belloc

“That you find Kierkegaard "frightful" has warmed the cockles of my heart. I find him simply insupportable and cannot understand, or rather, I understand only too well, why the theological neurosis of our time has made such a fuss over him. You are quite right when you say that the pathological is never valuable. It does, however, cause us the greatest difficulties and for this reason we learn the most from it.”
― C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Pages 231-232

“In war you learn your lessons, and they stay learned, but the tuition fees are high.”
― Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel