Justin

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

“Civilization is not about more capital accumulation per se; rather, it is about what capital accumulation allows humans to achieve, the flourishing and freedom to seek higher meaning in life when their base needs are met and most pressing dangers averted.”
― Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

“The beauty o’ making yourself a promise is that no one else complains if you break it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“You are dying. I see in you all the characteristic stigma of decay. I can prove to you that your great wealth and your great poverty, your capitalism and your socialism, your wars and your revolutions, your atheism and your ­pessimism and your cynicism, your immorality, your broken-down marriages, your birth-control, that is bleeding you from the bottom and killing you off at the top in your brains—I can prove to you that those were characteristic marks of the dying ages of ancient States—Alexandria and Greece and neurotic Rome.”
― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West