Forwarded from Esoteric Lindy
"War, it is said, offers man the opportunity to awaken the hero who sleeps within him. War breaks the routine of comfortable life; by means of its severe ordeals, it offers a transfiguring knowledge of life, life according to death."
Forwarded from Esoteric Lindy
"Do I still need to say that in the whole of the
New Testament there is only one honourable figure? Pilate, the Roman
governor. To take Jewish affairs seriously - he could not convince himself
to do this. One Jew more or less - what does it matter? ... The noble scorn
of a Roman when faced with an unashamed mangling of the word 'truth'
gave the New Testament its only statement of any value, - its critique,
even its annihilation: 'What is truth!' ..."
New Testament there is only one honourable figure? Pilate, the Roman
governor. To take Jewish affairs seriously - he could not convince himself
to do this. One Jew more or less - what does it matter? ... The noble scorn
of a Roman when faced with an unashamed mangling of the word 'truth'
gave the New Testament its only statement of any value, - its critique,
even its annihilation: 'What is truth!' ..."