"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

18 January 2022

Grandeur.

Wyeth, Apples on a Bough, Study Before Picking, 1942


Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, from The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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