Troy Richter > Troy's Quotes

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.”
― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, Vol 2: Perspectives of World History

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“O Rose, thou art sick.
The invisible worm
That flies in the night
In the howling storm

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.”
― William Blake, Songs of Experience

“When nations grow old the Arts grow cold
And commerce settles on every tree”
― William Blake

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon.”
― Raymond Roussel

“I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.”
― Giacomo Casanova

“Those who commend work. - In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. Fundamentally, one now feels at the sight of work - one always means by work that hard industriousness from early till late - that such work is the best policeman, that it keeps everyone in bounds and can mightily hinder the development of reason, covetousness, desire for independence. For it uses up an extraordinary amount of nervous energy, which is thus denied to reflection, brooding, dreaming, worrying, loving, hating; it sets a small goal always in sight and guarantees easy and regular satisfactions. Thus a society in which there is continual hard work will have more security: and security is now worshipped as the supreme divinity. - And now! Horror! Precisely the 'worker' has become dangerous! The place is swarming with 'dangerous individuals'! And behind them the danger of dangers - the individual!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“Was it not part of the secret black art of truly grand politics of revenge, of a farseeing, subterranean, slowly advancing, and premeditated revenge, that Israel must itself deny the real instrument of its revenge before all the world as a mortal enemy and nail it to the cross, so that 'all the world,' namely all the opponents of Israel, could unhesitatingly swallow just this bait? And could spiritual subtlety imagine any more dangerous bait than this? Anything to equal the enticing, intoxicating, overwhelming, and undermining power of that symbol of the 'holy cross,' that ghastly paradox of a 'God on the cross,' that mystery of an unimaginable ultimate cruelty and self-crucifixion of God for the salvation of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

“Prominent among the American capitalists with ties to Nazi counterparts was Prescott Bush, the father of one president and grandfather of another.”
― Oliver Stone, The Untold History of the United States

“Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation.”
― Fredrich Nietzche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

“History is written by the victors.”
― Walter Benjamin

“Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.”
― Elvis Presley

“Do something worth remembering.”
― Elvis Presley

“Before Elvis there was nothing.”
― John Lennon

“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie

“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. ”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Here's a truck stop instead of St. Peter's. ”
― Michael Stipe

“Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.”
― David Bowie

“The facts of life are conservative.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“Zeena's first published sermon at 7 years old. From “The Cloven Hoof” periodical, 1970, San Francisco, CA, USA.:

“The question, 'What is the difference between God and Satan?,' was put to Zeena LaVey, seven-year-old daughter of the High Priest. Her answer was...

'SATAN MADE THE ROSE AND GOD MADE THE THORNS.”
― Zeena Schreck, Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic

“The life of matter can be embraced only by an orchestral style, at once polychromatic, polyphonic, and polymorphous, by means of the most extensive analogies.”
― Filippo Tommaso Marinetti