Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Arthur Schopenhauer
2023
Tag: Prophet of Decay
It is the heritage of anguished centuries, and it distinguishes us from all other people – us, the youngest and last people of our culture.
Oswald Spengler
2022
History proves nothing because it contains everything.
Emil Cioran
2021
The world is becoming tame and sad and dreary.
Richard Thurland
2021
There is no substituting anything else for Life. After Life there is only Death.
Oswald Spengler
2021
There is but one end to all the conflict, and that is death—the death of individuals, of peoples, of cultures. Our own death still lies far ahead of us in the murky darkness of the next thousand years.
Oswald Spengler
2021
The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2016
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
How I wish I didn’t know anything about myself and this world!
Emil Cioran
Undated
Parallel Aesthetics 