amor patriae

Anarchy doesn’t mean out of control; it means out of their control.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

A Time for Wolves

“We have forgotten what rocks, plants, and animals still know. We have forgotten how to be — to be still, to be ourselves, to be where life is: Here and Now.”

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism, and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

I sit on a man’s back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.

I know a single slender thing about her: that, loving, she was like a burning birch-tree all tall and glittering fire,