“immerse yourselves in the histories of great men..satisfy your souls by reading Plutarch and dare to believe in yourself by believing in his heroes. with 100 such unmodernly educated men…the entire noisy sham cultivation of this great age could now be silenced once and for all”

I’ve always appreciated most about Nietzsche what academics seem to hate about him most— his hope for greatness amid nihilistic frauds who celebrate fashionable weakness as strength. Nietzsche flatly says to that: We only need 100 men to live what Plutarch teaches to fix it all.

Jenny Jones If hell is all you see when you look at the universe, then hell is inside your eyes.

Social, political discord is good …consensus and conformism is bad. I thank the Tibetans for sacking the repulsive Chinese capital of Chang’an a totalitarian name meaning “perpetual peace.” Glory to the gods and to strife.

I don’t do business with people who aren’t exceptional in every area of life. Make a lot of money but bad with women? Or your children hate you? Or you’re super fat and unhealthy? Big red flag. Biggest changes in my life happened when I demanded excellence in all areas of life

everyone I admire is a hyperfluent applied generalist with an eye for art

Every generation would’ve crucified Christ. That’s the point.

They trained you to play the victim olympics to see who can outcompete one another at being the most virtuous by merit of who has the most disadvantages. A slave's way of looking at the world. You should instead be focused on maximising your power level by all means possible.

As a Dawkins-era atheist I underestimated Christianity’s role as a civilisational operating system. I took its moral foundations for granted, assuming they were so self-evident that all humans would reach them once basic needs were met.

Illness is only clear to the healthy. Those born in illness know not, but the healthy see clearly.

When women choose power over beauty, it costs their souls.

“Extremist” is a female-coded word. Men worship extremes. Extreme talent, extreme ability, extreme money, extreme strength…

Reading has zero downside. It’s one of the highest roi activities available, and everyone has time for it. It takes away from nothing but gives to everything. Choosing not to read is silly, and honestly stupid. It’s as bad as not exercising.

True mastery is not brute strength but understanding the nature of things, how to cause change with minimal effort and maximum efficiency.

Weak people are always lying to themselves, so how can you expect them to tell you the truth? Your inner circle can disagree with you, have a different worldview, but they should at least be honest.

i am entirely convinced that only positive and optimistic people make it long term. you need to believe a better world is possible in order to make that possibility a reality those who never believe - never make it

Innocent until proven guilty is BS if they can destroy your life while you're innocent. With lawfare, the process is the punishment.

Success is the byproduct of learning. Yet mistakes don't turn into learning without reflection.

The emergence of high truth preference born from suffering due to society's deceptions leads to the birth of courage and virtue, courage because you'd rather suffer to grasp than be ignorant, and virtue because grounded in truth you establish the foundations for being honourable.