I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something to be surpassed. What have you done to surpass man?
Friedrich Nietzsche
2018
Author: parallelaesthetics
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2018
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
H.P. Lovecraft
2020
“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
“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
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