Man Should Be Educated For War, And Woman For The Recreation Of The Warrior; All Else Is Folly.Friedrich

Man should be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior; all else is folly. Friedrich Nietzsche

A strong and great soul is altogether distinguished by two features. One is the contempt for the external things of this world. The great soul is persuaded that no man ought to wonder at, hope for, or seek after anything except those things related to goodness and virtue, and that he should succumb to neither another man, nor a disturbance of the spirit, nor a trial of Fortune. The second feature is that, when you have molded your soul with this sort of attitude, as I said above, you perform great achievements of the highest utility which are extremely arduous, laborious, and full of danger to life and to many other things related to one’s livelihood.

Marcus Tullius Cicero,  De Officiis

Because of the central significance and consistency of the religious, it is also left to him to be his own poet, his own philosopher, his own king, and his own master builder in the cathedral of his personality. The ultimate roots of romanticism and the romantic phenomenon lie in the private priesthood. If we consider the situation from aspects such as these, then we should not always focus only on the good-natured pastoralists. On the contrary, we must also see the despair that lies behind the romantic movement — regardless of whether this despair becomes lyrically enraptured with God and the world on a sweet, moonlit night, utters a lament as the world-weariness and the sickness of the century, pessimistically lacerates itself, or frenetically plunges into the abyss of instinct and life. We must see the three persons whose deformed visages penetrate the colorful romantic veil: Byron, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche, the three high priests, and at the same time the three sacrificial victims, of this private priesthood.

Carl Schmitt, Political Romanticism

The word ‘substance’ (οὐσία) is applied, if not in more senses, still at least to four main objects; for both the essence (τί ἦν εἶναι) and the universal (καθόλου) and the genus (γένος) are thought to be the substance of each thing, and fourthly the substratum (ὑποκείμενον). Now the substratum is that of which everything else is predicated, while it is itself not predicated of anything else. And so we must first determine this; for that which underlies a thing primarily is thought to be in the truest sense its substance. And in one sense matter (ὕλη) is said to be of the nature of substratum, in another, shape (μορφή), and in a third, the compound of these. (By the matter I mean, for instance, the bronze, by the shape the pattern of its form, and by the compound of these the statue, the concrete whole.) Therefore if the form is prior to the matter and more real, it will be prior also to the compound of both, for the same reason.

Aristotle, Metaphysics

What shines into beings, though can never be explained on the basis of beings nor constructed out of beings, is Being itself.

Martin Heidegger, Plato's Sophist

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground