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“Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.”

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Tom Hodgkinson

Tom Hodgkinson is a British writer born in 1968. He is known for his unique sense of humor and critical thinking about modern life. Hodgkinson's works cover a variety of topics, including personal growth, social commentary, and lifestyle. more

“Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a whole. Indeed, something greater than a phenomenon confined to art can be discerned shimmering here beneath the surface - shimmering not with light but with an ominous crimson glow.”

Art Whole Light Culture Views Greater Higher Concepts Built Worthy Surface Neglect Phenomenon Confined Crimson Ominous Beneath The Surface

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.”

People Evil Support Chiefs Evil People

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“We should not call a city happy because it attracts masses of citizens from everywhere; a fortunate city is one in which the race of the original inhabitants is best preserved.”

Should Race Cities Citizens Mass Originals Fortunate

Author:Isocrates

“Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.”

Men Mean Law Order Break Broken Tyrants Impunity

Author:Allan Bloom

“We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.”

Years Culture Taken Granted Hideous Depravity Taken For Granted

Author:Roger Kimball

“For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.”

Men Earth Secret Objects Goes On Bread Abundance Conception Stable Consent

Book:Grand Inquisitor

Source: Grand Inquisitor

“I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.”

Doe Hard School Talent Praise Regard Blame Norm Exceptional Indulgence Obeying Good School Proper Time

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.”

Purpose Void

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.”

Holy Calling Raises Philosopher Royal Anglo Saxon

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A resolute leader who collects ten thousand adventurers about him can do as he pleases. Were the whole world a single Imperium, it would thereby become merely the maximum conceivable field for the exploits of such conquering heroes.”

World Whole Can Do Leader Fields Hero Please Thousand Ten Whole World Conquer Maximum Exploits Adventurer Resolute

Book:Perspectives of world history

Source: Perspectives of world history

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