“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
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“I don’t need any support, advice, or compassion, because even if I am the most ruinous man, I still feel so powerful, so strong and fierce. For I am the only one that lives without hope.”
Emil Cioran
2018
“The Harshness of the world can only be met with hardness, not be trickery.”
Ernst Jünger
2018
“No victor believes in chance.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
2018
“Tears do not burn except in solitude.”
Emil Cioran
2018
“The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.”
Emil Cioran
2018
“The ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart — not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death.’”
Friedrich Nietzsche
2018
“For two thousand years, Jesus has revenged himself on us for not having died on a sofa.”
Emil Cioran
2018
