A More Complete Beast Quotes

“The man who wants to be great believes that he is worthy of greatness. And it is so because he makes it so.”
― Jack Donovan, A More Complete Beast

“The danger for the Noble man is in resigning himself to “wait” for the revolution. You’re alive NOW, man. Memento mori. Don’t spend your life waiting for something to happen, for some chance occurrence, for someone else to do something for you, for someone to free you, so that you can finally be who you want to be. That’s slave thinking. You might as well wait for your reward in Heaven. Do what you can, while you can.”
― Jack Donovan, A More Complete Beast

“Anti-Noble morality is the product of ressentiment. The Anti-Noble man feels trapped. He believes that his happiness and fulfillment have been thwarted by others. He resents them for having better opportunities, for having greater wealth, for having more power, for using that power to coerce or oppress him. The Noble man views people, actions and circumstances as either being positive or negative, “good” or “un-good” in relationship to his own interests, subjectively. Instead of recognizing the tragic and unfair nature of human existence, the Anti-Noble man constructs a system of morality that he convinces himself is objective, rather than subjective — as it truly is.”
― Jack Donovan, A More Complete Beast

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― Jack Donovan, A More Complete Beast

“This Noble Beast is both creature and creator — a Dionysian man of the earth who responds to its chaos and disorder by dreaming and imposing his own solar, Apollonian vision. He is a self-creator, a visionary force of order, a starter of worlds.”
― Jack Donovan, A More Complete Beast

“This man was born within the physical and psychical boundaries of the Empire of Nothing, but he is possessed by an atavistic wildness. He finds himself unsatisfied with seeking only that which is necessary for his own survival and pleasure. It is a higher happiness he seeks — the joy of self-revelation and becoming that can only be achieved through pressure and trial. He loves himself, says YES to his own life, celebrates his own existence, and seeks to discharge his own strength. He is a man who wants to become more of what he is, more of what a man is. He wants to be stronger, more courageous, more skillful.”
― Jack Donovan, A More Complete Beast

“The path is not away from ressentiment, but toward a higher ideal. The Noble Beast is not traveling away from weakness, but toward strength and a lifestyle that thrives on strength. He is focused on what he is, and what he is becoming — not “others” or their paths, which serve only as warnings and counterexamples.”
― Jack Donovan, A More Complete Beast

“To call out virility as a virtue — for its own sake — is to say, “I am a man, and that is good, because I love myself and my life and my fate and I want to be more of what I am, for my own sake.”
― Jack Donovan, A More Complete Beast

“The weak man who agrees that it is better to be strong — and then pushes himself to be stronger — is different from the weak man who decides strength is useless — or even morally suspect — because he doesn’t have it.”
― Jack Donovan, A More Complete Beast

“The weak man who agrees that it is better to be strong — and then pushes himself to be stronger — is different from the weak man who decides strength is
useless — or even morally suspect — because he doesn’t have it.”
― Jack Donovan, A More Complete Beast

“…greatness flows from the creativity and overcoming that chaos and challenge inspires in the man whose Noble belief in his own worth drives him forward to demonstrate his potential and realize the miracle of his own godhood. If you cannot see the way, make the way. If you despise the world around you, do not lament the passing of a dream you never knew — dream the world that you want NOW. Begin from where you are. Dream a new world and impose it from above. Thrust your hands into the decaying soil, scoop it up and sculpt it — give it shape with all of your strength. Life was never fair and creation was never easy. Take the world you have and make the one you want. Be the god that gives it life. And if you don’t know where to start — if you have nothing but your own body — start there. Create and recreate yourself. Be the clay, and become your own dream. Not because you have to, or because it is needed or necessary, but because you want to. Why not? Isn’t that what the conqueror, the master and the first king says? “Why not me?” Why not be the creature who creates himself?”
― Jack Donovan, A More Complete Beast

“In The Empire of Nothing, the high arbiters of morality are in effect the offended complainers—those grievance grifters who are always upset, always unsatisfied, always the victim, always angling for special treatment, always trying to get something for nothing.”
― Jack Donovan, A More Complete Beast

“Great men are not motivated by what is necessary, satisfactory or practical. Great men are motivated by what is… great. That which is necessary merely facilitates beauty and greatness.”
― Jack Donovan, A More Complete Beast