Benevolence is more a vice of pride than a true virtue of the soul.
Marquis de Sade
2026
Tag: Statue
We are each either among the demoralised showing the way to a future of eternal nightmare, or we are losers celebrating our moment in hell.
Thomas Ligotti
2026
To be alive is to inhabit a nightmare without hope of awakening to a natural world, to have our bodies embedded neck-deep in a quagmire of dread, to live as shut-ins in a house of horrors from which nobody gets out alive.
Thomas Ligotti
2015
Poetry is the vision in a man’s soul which he translates as best he can with all the means at his disposal.
Paul Fort
2023
That which distinguishes the Christian narrow way from the common human narrow way is the voluntary. Christ was not someone who coveted earthly things but had to be satisfied with poverty – no, he chose poverty.
Søren Kierkegaard
2025
Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life.
Immanuel Kant
2025
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself. Arthur Schopenhauer
2025
To succeed in the world we do everything we can to appear successful already.
François de La Rochefoucauld
2025
When not prompted by vanity, we say little.
François de La Rochefoucauld
2025
If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
François de La Rochefoucauld
2025
