The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2016
Tag: Oswald Spengler
There exists in the world a single path along which no one can go except you: whither does it lead? Do not ask, go along it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2021
People say, “Artist, study nature!” But it is no small matter to develop what is noble out of what is common, beauty out of what lacks form.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2020
Great joys come from contemplating noble deeds.
Democritus
2021
One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2021
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
Parallel Aesthetics 