Anthony Marais > Quotes

“Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“We need but three things to change the world: a brain, a heart, and a friend.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“The hermit is he who needs a friend, and in the absence of a community has befriended himself.”
― Anthony Marais

“Our most cultural state is one of total certainty—which is the reason those of us who are most certain are those who are most out of touch with nature (i.e., reality).”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“Humanity is as horrified and repulsed by real nature as it is by real death. Thus, we strike back against this formidable opponent with our sharpest weapon: our imagination. From this noble tool—born of necessity and elevated to beauty—culture was born, and the war against nature begun.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“Many humans make the mistake of fighting for race when it’s the species driving our genes. And there is only one weapon to fight for species: the brain.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“We cannot escape the longing, no matter what life we choose. We’re either longing for people, places or times gone by, which are essentially the same things: memories. And, whether or not we travel, the older we get, the more memories we collect. Nostalgia is simply the result of aging and liking the life you’ve lived. Be happy you can feel it—it’s a good sign.”
― Anthony Marais

“Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“Wisdom doesn’t come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“Reflection is nothing more than what it sounds, and pondering one’s own life is about as productive as talking to one’s image in a mirror: both acts are egocentric and neither produces a dialog. People who talk to themselves in public are not self-actualized; they're crazy.”
― Anthony Marais

“Somethingism is better than nihilism.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.”
― Anthony Marais, The Cure

“We are all born wise. Unfortunately, we all don’t die that way.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“Those who jump out of airplanes do not love life—they deny it, which, of course, is not done without a certain naughty exhilaration. Like children they relish tugging on the apron of Mother Nature, as long as she doesn’t turn and slap them.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“Marriage is a lie—the most beautiful lie two people can share.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“From our myopia arose our dystopia.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“If death is perfect enlightenment, life appears to be the perfect opposite.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“Atheists believe simplicity is a virtue when it is precisely this that weighs so heavily on their souls.”
― Anthony Marais

“Fireworks: we shoot them off gaily while our dogs hide under the bed. Philosophers are dogs!”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“Cockroach: What is war?
Man: How we lost the human race.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

“If divorce is like death, then is not the perpetration of divorce a kind of murder? That is, are we not risking putting ourselves through the same torment—the same sleepless nights, feelings of persecution and guilt, the regret—as one of those pathetic characters from a Dostoevsky novel? It’s like you’ve just struck your wife with a candelabra and now you’re looking at her lifeless body on the floor, and suddenly she looks pretty.”
― Anthony Marais

“Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism