Moses Germanus

Rugged Individualist

[Moses Germanus @moses_germanus]

Seth Benardete:

[Der Sieger 🇵🇸🇨🇺 @RedMaistre]

Filled with joy by reading of the languages, poetics, and religions of the Indo-European. The elation at vast vistas of space and sky, upon which, under which, primordial migrations begin that have no end.

[Alexander's Cartographer @cartographer_s]

Mount Elbrus - Lev Lagorio, 1868

[Der Sieger 🇵🇸🇨🇺 @RedMaistre]

The Scythian Empire by Christopher Beckwith is fantastic.

[Moses Germanus @moses_germanus]

these movements and reject them so that one day a new age of fine arts (at least) will dawn.“

Christopher Beckwith, Empires of the Silk Road

[Moses Germanus @moses_germanus]

„I reject Modernism and its hyper-Modern mutation, Postmodernism. They are anti-intellectual movements that have wreaked great damage in practically all fields of human endeavor. I hope that a future generation of young people might be inspired to attack

[Moses Germanus @moses_germanus]

„Defining our terms means thinking about them-something not done very much these days, because admittedly thinking is hard to do-but it is worth the effort if we want artists, poets and musicians to do Beauty again.

Christopher Beckwith, Greek Buddha

[Der Sieger 🇵🇸🇨🇺 @RedMaistre]

Shifting about reading texts on Pyrrhonism, to Indo-Europeons, to Napoleon, so as to achieve ataraxia.

[Dominated by Dig Dug @dominbydigdug]

τῷ Ἀσκληπιῷ ὀφείλομεν ἀλεκτρυόν

"To Asclepius we owe a cock"

Plato, Phaedo 118 a.

The last words of Socrates.

[Hyperion @Ortgeist]

Bust of Pericles in the Hellenic Parliament building, Athens, Greece

[Moses Germanus @moses_germanus]

„Licht bin ich: ach, dass ich Nacht wäre! Aber diess ist meine Einsamkeit, dass ich von Licht umgürtet bin.“

Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra

[Alexander's Cartographer @cartographer_s]

Views of the Caucasus Mountains - Ilya Nikolaevich Zankovsky

[Alexander's Cartographer @cartographer_s]

View of Cairo - Ivan Aivazovsky

[Alexander's Cartographer @cartographer_s]

Arvid Mauritz Lindström

[Moses Germanus @moses_germanus]

„Ich will die Menschen den Sinn ihres Seins lehren: welcher ist der Übermensch, der Blitz aus der dunklen Wolke Mensch.“

Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra

[Moses Germanus @moses_germanus]

„One cannot understand the subtleties, and the most important subtleties, of Plato‘s Republic without having studied Aristophanes.“

Leo Strauss

[Aris Roussinos @arisroussinos]

20th c Italian littoral imperialism in the Mediterranean ushered in tremendous harms to Greece, Libya, Albania etc but left a legacy of nostalgic Italophilia, good food, coffee, great architecture. In civilisational terms it must have been one of the most successful colonial projects of modern times.

[Moses Germanus @moses_germanus]

„Wie hätte auch ein Plato das Leben ausgehalten - ein griechisches Leben, zu dem er Nein sagte - ohne einen Aristophanes!“

Nietzsche

[Stilicho @GenStilicho]

Donald Kagan did not see the Pelopennesian War as inevitable, believing that "the two great powers and their allies could live side by side in peace indefinitely, and thus that it was not the underlying causes but the immediate crisis that produced the war."