
“The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.”
Source: A Short History of Decay (1949)
Source: The Song of Achilles
“The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.”
Source: A Short History of Decay (1949)
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
“A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.”
Interview with Barbara Walters (15 March 1991); also quoted in his memoir It Doesn't Take a Hero : General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the Autobiography (1992), p. xiii
Review of The Changeling, by Thomas Middleton (1961), p. 75
Tynan Right and Left (1967)
Guardians of Ayn Rand http://lesswrong.com/lw/m1/guardians_of_ayn_rand/ (December 2007)