BrahmsEnjoyer

“Und er ist gekommen, ein junges Blut, an dessen Wiege Grazien und Helden Wache hielten. Er heißt Johannes Brahms, kam von Hamburg…”

[BrahmsEnjoyer @BrahmsEnjoyer]

There is, and has only ever been one victory: over one’s former self.

[Athanasius @Athanasius_45]

Not to mention the Book of John in Homeric Greek by Nonnus:

https://t.co/1oxfPrkC1M

[Athanasius @Athanasius_45]

If Erasmus can do it, so can you.

Γηράσκω δ᾿ αἰεὶ πολλὰ διδασκόμενος.
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I grow older while ever learning many things.
Plutarch, Solon 31

https://t.co/NMVqq2Mhjw

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

This is the only Latin version I know of Housman's most poignant poem (ASL XL), by Cyril Asquith, son of H.H.
Excellent sixth line.

[BrahmsEnjoyer @BrahmsEnjoyer]

Bruckner 7

[Athanasius @Athanasius_45]

Schopenhauer on how to train your memory:

[BrahmsEnjoyer @BrahmsEnjoyer]

“The best Service which history renders us is to lead us to prize the present.”

- Emerson, Journals, August 12th, 1836

[BrahmsEnjoyer @BrahmsEnjoyer]

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.”

- Emerson, Journals, May 16th, 1834

[BrahmsEnjoyer @BrahmsEnjoyer]

The Green and Yellows have a life and mind of their own 😂

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

"8".

[Johannes A. Niederhauser @JohannesAchill]

“Aristocracy is the source of the intellectual development of the formation of any nation.”

Werner Jaeger

[Dominated by Dig Dug @dominbydigdug]

"The tragedies of history do not arise from the conflict of conventional right and wrong. They are more august and more complex. Caesar and Brutus each had right on his side" (p. 59).

[Alex Priou @alexpriou]

Well over a century ago, Nietzsche predicted very well what classics would become, what the scientific study of classical texts does to a man, what characterizes the soul of the philologist.

An anecdote from Conversations with Nietzsche:

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“Oxford continues to suffer from the ravages of the machine–worshippers. I remember it as a little old university town nestling in the country… now sprawls in every direction, jammed with noise and smell; and every now & again the most ­hideous buildings go up.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

[Bret van den Brink @BretVDB]

I am “certain that Spenser was carefully studied by Joyce.”

—Northrop Frye, “Notebook 43”

[BrahmsEnjoyer @BrahmsEnjoyer]

"The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite, and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight."

- Emerson, "The Poet" (1844)

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“If the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins [1883]

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”

— Goethe

[The Book Land @the_book_land]

'Alas! my Dante! thou has known the pain
Of meaner lives,—the exile's galling chain,
How steep the stairs within kings' houses are,
And all the petty miseries which mar
Man's nobler nature with the sense of wrong.
Yet this dull world is grateful for thy song;
Our nations do thee homage,—even she,
That cruel queen of vine-clad Tuscany,
Who bound with crown of thorns thy living brow,
Hath decked thine empty tomb with laurels now,
And begs in vain the ashes of her son.

O mightiest exile! all thy grief is done:
Thy soul walks now beside thy Beatrice;
Ravenna guards thine ashes: sleep in peace.'

Oscar Wilde,
'Ravenna'

[Mart @Martposting]

fuck #SpaceCucks

[Democritus Sr @DemocritusSr]

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Duty” – “So nigh is grandeur to our dust”

[BrahmsEnjoyer @BrahmsEnjoyer]

Lift not thy spear against the Muses' Bowre,
The great Emathian Conqueror bid spare
The house of Pindarus, when Temple and Towre
Went to the ground: and the repeated air
Of sad Electra's Poet had the power
To save th' Athenian Walls from ruine bare.