The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a God.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases is man.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
The cure for love is still in most cases that ancient radical medicine: love in return.
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Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence, who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.
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Priests, these turkey-cocks of God.
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In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but he hides it like a bad conscience, why? From fear of his neighbor, who demands conventionality and cloaks himself with it. But what is it that constrains the individual to fear his neighbor, to think and act like a member of a herd, and to have no joy in himself? Modesty, perhaps, in a few rare cases. With the great majority it is indolence, inertia. Men are even lazier than they are timid, and fear most of all the inconveniences with which unconditional honesty and nakedness would burden them. Artists alone hate this sluggish promenading in borrowed fashions and appropriated opinions and they reveal everyone's secret bad conscience, the law that every man is a unique miracle.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Dream)
We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way, not at all or in an interesting manner.
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We "conserve" nothing; neither do we want to return to any past periods; we are not by any means "liberal"; we do not work for "progress"; we do not need to plug up our ears against the sirens who in the market place sing of the future: their song about "equal rights," "a free society," "no more masters and no servants" has no allure for us.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
What does your conscience say? "You shall become the person you are."
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