Stephen Vis

Great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!

The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not...

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

@Perverttrad Nice

[Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @Daoxue_Academy]

Master Kong said, “Do not enter a tottering state, nor dwell in a disordered one. When the Way prevails in the world, then show yourself; when it does not prevail, then hide.” (Lunyu 8.13)

子曰：「危邦不入，亂邦不居。天下有道則見，無道則隱。」

[Girardism @Girardism]

“Behind our universal tolerance and multiculturalism an enormous amount of crude scapegoating is going on which should be denounced.”

— René Girard, Conversations with René Girard, ch. 5

[Jmy @JmyLss]

"How can one endure an age that has tarnished everything that was once sacred?"

Yukio Mishima.

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

@BeSaintly "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."

[Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @PeterSjostedtH]

'The self-overcoming of morality through truthfulness, the self-overcoming of the moralist into his opposite–into me...'
– #Nietzsche

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

@Girardism @teatrolafenice “for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises as the other falls."

— Plato

[Plato's Stepchild @MattRob78281471]

"The 'Prophecy of the Cross' in Plato...was one of the fundamental ideas in Patristic theology...an overwhelming discovery of the cross as a seal imprinted on the universe."

- Joseph Ratzinger

(Prime Number Cross by Robert Grant)

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

@Thomasdelvasto_ You forget about the Antichrist

[Lucien IV🌙 @Viotocrat]

Nietzsche on Great men

[jin (金) @WukongReborn]

the one is not complete without the 0

[LiteraryVienna @LiteraryVienna]

„Ach, der Himmel über mir
will die Erde nie berühren,
und das Dort ist niemals hier.

Friedrich von Schiller
* 10. November 1759

[Georg Hegel Literature @GeorgHegell]

“By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.”

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

The Way Of Life - Dead Prez https://t.co/M0wr2Cu0jf via @YouTube

[Plato's Stepchild @MattRob78281471]

St. Bonaventure certainly won the argument.

"All I have written appears to be as so much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.“

"I can write no more. I have seen things that make my writings like straw.”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

Heidegger on city-dwellers and solitude:

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

@miltonappl3 Read Plato’s republic ending book 5 and 6

Geometrics and arithmetics are about unitary and plurality applied to dimension. It is dialectics. The one and many. It is the highest layer of wisdom

[Girardism @Girardism]

“The modern world seems to force people to choose between either, on the one hand, heroic renunciation [which includes] chastity, sobriety, poverty, and everything that was once deemed ‘saintly’ or, on the other, a blind descent into chaos and death — and this in an era that is increasingly unable to comprehend the positive nature of renunciation.”

— René Girard

[waiting @_primamateria]

Carl Jung

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

@Homxer That’s actually the beginning of the matrix part four