SakrificeTheKing

a king sacrificer (in chess)

quotes i happen to like:

"No man was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

"Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness."

"School is not the end, but the beginning of an education."

"We do not need more intellectual power. We need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; under the rule of a just God, cannot retain it.

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years."

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

"Everyone says, 'Well, you should be harmless, virtuous, you shouldn't do anyone harm, you should sheath your competitive instinct, you shouldn't try to win. You don't want to be too aggressive. You don't want to be too assertive'. No. Wrong. You should be a monster, and an absolute monster, and then you should learn how to control it."

"Because God is a rational being, and the universe is His personal creation, it necessarily has a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting increased human comprehension. This is the key to many intellectual undertakings, among them, the rise of science."

"Morality cannot come from an immoral universe, and rationality cannot come from an irrational universe. You only ever see cells coming from cells. Likewise, morality and rationality come from morality and rationality."

"Imagination is as dark as the person imagining."

"If you're harmless, you're not virtuous. You're just harmless. You're like a rabbit. A rabbit isn't virtuous. It just can't do anything except get eaten! But if you're a monster, and you don't act monstrously, that's virtuous.

"If you are not capable of cruelty, you are absolutely a victim to anyone who is."

"If you fail to understand evil, you have laid yourself bare to it. You are susceptible to its effects or to its will.

"You might be winning, but you're not growing, and growing might be the most important form of winning."

"You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are."

"Your life becomes meaningful in precise proportion to the responsibility you are willing to shoulder."

"The purpose of life, as far as I can tell...is to find a mode of being that's so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.