Dávila

Those who proclaim that the noble is despicable end up by proclaiming that the despicable is noble. --Nicolás Gómez Dávila

via Jash Dholani aka @oldbooksguy

про газеты

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” ― Mark Twain

Snopes says misattributed, но приводят слова Джефферсона, который сказал практически то же самое, что и Твен. так што...

homely face

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Minna Antrim

more:

- When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird. [compare: Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain]
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- Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong. [compare: Who would ever argue with a naked woman? - Anon.]

the only crime in war

This is the way it's always been, the only crime in war is to lose. @HarmlessYardDog

sanity and happiness

Are you so unobservant that you do not yet realize that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

Mark Twain

это напоминает старую максиму: стоит взглянуть на вещи трезво - и сразу немедленно хочется выпить.

The high cost of vengeance

The high cost of vengeance by Freda Utley

The pen is still mightier than the sword and responsible for more human misery when unscrupulously employed in "psychological warfare." As Samuel Johnson wrote in the eighteenth century : "I know not whether more is to be feared from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lie."

Chapter 1, Road to War

это она пишет по поводу истории вообще и истории немецко-французских отношенией в частности. и вот кстати о Рузвельте:

President Roosevelt, by torpedoing the London Economic Conference and devaluating the dollar, gave a further mighty impetus to the economic warfare which was the curtain-raiser to the tragedy of World War II.

вот кстати Байден спотыкается

еще полезно прочесть Chapter 6 The Nuremberg Judgments, "Woe to the Vanquished." и тому подобное. и конечно Chapter 7 Our Crimes against Humanity

It was impossible to travel through the devastated towns of the Western zones without it seeming strange and horrible that we should sit in judgment on the Germans who had never succeeded in killing nearly so many civilians as we did, or in perpetrating worse atrocities than our obliteration bombing of whole cities.

и так далее. там много познавательного, например начиная со слов The effect of my remarks... про Judge Edward Leroy van Roden Allied War Crimes In Germany

книги делаются из книг

Книги делаются из книг. - Вольтер

интересно, что эта фраза приводится в Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary в более широком контексте:

The reason that books are multiplied in spite of the general law that beings shall not be multiplied without necessity, is that books are made from books. A new history of France or Spain is manufactured from several volumes already printed, without adding anything new. All dictionaries are made from dictionaries; almost all new geographical books are made from other books of geography; St. Thomas’s Dream has brought forth two thousand large volumes of divinity, and the same race of little worms that have devoured the parent are now gnawing the children.

     Write, write away; each writer at his pleasure
     May squander ink and paper without measure.

опять же интересно, вот этим beings shall not be multiplied without necessity он на Оккама намекает? и еще: в формулировке Books Are Made from out of Books google находит ссылки только на Cormac Mccarthy, никакого Вольтера. вот например Cormac Mccarthy: "the Ugly Fact Is Books Are Made out of Books". hmm... ну и это все приводит на память творчество chatGPT конечно.

и еще один афоризм, не помню где подслушал:

Француз не запирает жену от соседа, потому что знает: если станет запирать, сосед сделает то же самое.

не подумайте плохого

Honi soit qui mal y pense

...a maxim in the Anglo-Norman language, a dialect of Old Norman French spoken by the medieval ruling class in England, meaning "shamed be whoever thinks ill of it"... In current French usage, the phrase may be used ironically to imply the presence of a hidden agenda or a conflict of interest.

...
King Edward III was dancing with Joan of Kent, his first cousin and daughter-in-law, at a ball held in Calais to celebrate the fall of the city after the Battle of Crécy. Her garter slipped down to her ankle, causing those around her to laugh at her humiliation. Edward placed the garter around his own leg, saying: "Honi soit qui mal y pense. Tel qui s'en rit aujourd'hui, s'honorera de la porter"

people and ideas

People don't have ideas. Ideas have people. —Carl Jung
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Истина существует только в той степени, в какой человек сам ее производит. —Серен Кьеркегор

Obama vs DeSantis

Or as Orwell famously put it, "Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them." @GeorgeSzamuely

это по поводу

Media went from supporting Obama’s view that Ukraine is not a vital interest to describing the same view as dangerous and absurd when DeSantis says it. @MaxAbrahms

anarchy or tyranny

The medieval Persian philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali believed one year of anarchy is worse than a hundred years of tyranny. --Robert Kaplan’s tragic realism by John Gray

тут уместно еще раз вспомнить, что сказал Жозеф де Местр: Урок царям: злоупотребления порождают революцию. Урок народам: революция хуже всяких злоупотреблений.

see also from The Revenge of Geography / Warrior Politics и Доброта посторонних

и еще Культ некомпетентности Эмиля Фаге:

Решение по-прежнему не найдено. Если мы хотим его найти, надо, чтобы правители при социалистическом режиме не избирались, надо, чтобы они были правителями милостью Божьей, как иезуиты в Парагвае. Надо, чтобы правление было деспотичным не только по своему образу действий, но и по своему происхождению. Нужна монархия.

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По сути, сползание, если можно так выразиться, демократии к социализму не что иное, как движение вспять — к деспотизму.

anxiety

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. --Søren Kierkegaard

от себя добавлю - а может быть аллергия на свободу. © впс

on convictions

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. --Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our strongest convictions are usually the most self-serving. --yhs

злые люди в twitter

Breaking news, Kevin McCarthy has been locked in a cargo box and shipped to Ukraine @mtracey - комментарии замечательно смешные

NPR is institutionalized psychopathology. @JDHaltigan - это по поводу новой детской книжки, The graphic memoir Gender Queer, статья про нее на сайте NPR. с картинками.

Good looking people are more resistant to wearing face masks @SteveStuWill тут тоже комментарии стоит почитать

ну и подводя итог,

“The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.” --Arthur Schopenhauer

it takes a rebel to rebel

“Men do not rebel because their conditions of life are intolerable; it takes a rebel to rebel.” --Brian Crozier

via The Game of Nations by Miles Copeland

это по поводу

Most Egyptians, he went on to say, have lived at marginal subsistence for thousands of years and could go on for another thousand.

этот Brian Crozier написал Political Victory: The Elusive Prize of Military Wars и много другого интересного, включая автобиографию Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-91 [pdf]

a few quotes

“My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.” --Søren Kierkegaard

“A leader is a dealer in hope.” --Napoleon Bonaparte

“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.” --Arthur Schopenhauer

“That when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.” --Arthur Schopenhauer

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” --Voltaire

solitude

Парадоксальность и ошибочность не одно и то же. © zolika_ru

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Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you. --Carl Jung

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My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. --Friedrich Nietzsche

large audience

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

--Arthur Schopenhauer

the benefits of education

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

--Theodore Roosevelt

goal of propaganda