“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.”
H.L. Mencken
2018
Author: parallelaesthetics
“If you wish to discover the nature of causality, look first to your mind.”
Samuel Alexander
Undated
“Civilisation is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.”
Arnold J. Toynbee
2019
“Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.”
Baruch Spinoza
2020
“Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
2019
“I don’t need any support, advice, or compassion, because even if I am the most ruinous man, I still feel so powerful, so strong and fierce. For I am the only one that lives without hope.”
Emil Cioran
2018
“I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.”
H.P. Lovecraft
2015
“We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Undated
“The Harshness of the world can only be met with hardness, not be trickery.”
Ernst Jünger
2018
“No victor believes in chance.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
2018
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