To succeed in the world we do everything we can to appear successful already.
François de La Rochefoucauld
2025
Tag: Nietzsche
So it is that after each night, facing a new day, the impossible necessity of dealing with it fills us with dread; exiled in light as if the world had just started, inventing the sun, we flee from tears—just one of which would be enough to wash us out of time.
Emil Cioran
2024
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
2023
Scaffolds, dungeons, jails flourish only in the shadow of a faith — of that need to believe which has infested the mind forever.
Emil Cioran
2024
Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. Martin Heidegger
2023
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2023
It is difficult to define love. In the soul it is a passion to rule; in the mind it is sympathy; and in the body it is only a hidden and tactful desire to possess what we love after many mysteries.
François de La Rochefoucauld
2023
Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit — and forces us to be strong…
Friedrich Nietzsche
2023
My garden gives me more certainty than any philosophical system.
Ernst Jünger
2023
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2023
Parallel Aesthetics 