“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
Tag: Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“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
“We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Undated
“No victor believes in chance.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
2018
“One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be – though possibly a coloured canvas and a sheet of notes will remain – because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.”
Oswald Spengler
2019
“The ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart — not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death.’”
Friedrich Nietzsche
2018
“God is dead; but given the way people are, there may still for millennia be caves in which they show his shadow.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
2016
Parallel Aesthetics 