There is only one certainty of civilisations and that is their eventual demise.
James Ellis
2021

There is only one certainty of civilisations and that is their eventual demise.
James Ellis
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 surest aid in combating the male’s disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2021

For the sake of love, women wholly become what they are in the imagination of the men who love them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2021

I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest.
Max Stirner
2021

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2021

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
Emil Cioran
2021

I do not presuppose myself, because I am every moment just positing or creating myself.
Max Stirner
2021

To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I’d welcome the plague as a blessing.
Emil Cioran
2015 edited 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