Autobiography (1936; 1949; 1958)
Context: To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition. But that certainly does not mean asceticism or self-mortification. Nor do I appreciate in the least the idealization of the "simple peasant life." I have almost a horror of it, and instead of submitting to it myself I want to drag out even the peasantry from it, not to urbanization, but to the spread of urban cultural facilities to rural areas.
“If racehorses were trained as much as most bodybuilders train, you could safely bet your money on an out-of-condition turtle.”
The New High Intensity Training (2004)
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Letter to Monica Jones, 22 October 1967
“If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.”
“I'll never get laid trying to keep you safe. You're a train wreck on steroids.”
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Train for honor
A Sky Without Eagles (2014)
Context: 'I train for honor'... I train because somewhere in my DNA there's a memory of a more ferocious world, a world where men could become what they are and reach the most terrifyingly magnificent state of their nature. I don't train to impress the majority of modern slobs. I train to be worthy enough to be worthy enough to 'carry water' for my barbarian fathers, and to be worthy of the company of the men most like them today. I train because I imagine the disgust and contempt out ancestors would have for us all if they lined up modern men on the street. I train to be less of an embarrassment to their memory. I train because most modern men dishonor all of the men who came before them. I train "as if" they were watching and judging us... I train because it is better to imagine oneself as a soldier in a spiritual army training for a war that may never come than it is to shrug, slouch and shuffle forward into a dysgenic and dystopian future.
1970s, Oui interview (1977)
Speech to Parliament, 1930s; quoted by Bernard Levin in The Pendulum Years (1970).
Part I, Chapter 5, At the High School
1920s, An Autobiography (1927)
"Why Nerds are Unpopular," February 2003