noblethumos

“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
― Socrates

“All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.”
― Heraclitus

“In a world without meaningful authority, all "acts" are coercive.”
― Philip Rieff, Charisma: The Gift of Grace, and How It Has Been Taken Away from Us

“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”
― W.B. Yeats