convellor

Updated: May 6, 2025

As our emblem and coat of arms, I propose a tree mightily shaken by the wind, but still bearing its ruddy fruit on every branch; with the motto Dum convellor mitescunt, or Conquassata sed ferax. That purely intellectual life of the individual has its counterpart in humanity as a whole.

Arthur Schopenhauer - The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature