We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Konstantin Josef Jireček
Konstantin Josef Jireček
Captain Ryoji Uehara was killed during an attack on the US Fleet at the battle of Okinawa, May 11th 1945. He was 22 years old. Among his personal effects was a book on philosophy by Benedetto Croce, in the cover of which he had written:
"Goodbye, my beloved Kyoko-chan. I loved you so much; but even then you were already engaged, so it was very painful for me. Thinking only of your happiness, I suppressed the urge to whisper into your ear that I loved you. I love you still."
"Goodbye, my beloved Kyoko-chan. I loved you so much; but even then you were already engaged, so it was very painful for me. Thinking only of your happiness, I suppressed the urge to whisper into your ear that I loved you. I love you still."
Forwarded from tomrum
To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities — I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not — that one endures.
Friedrich Nietzsche from The Will to Power.
Arno Breker - The wounded
Friedrich Nietzsche from The Will to Power.
Arno Breker - The wounded
“Every word is a prejudice.”
—Human, All Too Human, “The Wanderer and His Shadow,” §55.
—Human, All Too Human, “The Wanderer and His Shadow,” §55.
It is a monstrous act of violence to begin something.
- Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Letter from the Young Worker” in Letters to A Young Poet
- Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Letter from the Young Worker” in Letters to A Young Poet