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“To je tako malograđanski, obavezati se na poglede, koji stotina milja dalje već ne obavezuju. Ja hoću da učinim pokušaj, da dođem do slobode, kaže sebi mlada duša; i tu bi trebalo da je spreči to, da se slučajno dve nacije mrze i ratuju, ili da se more nalazi između dva kopna, ili da se u njenom okruženju podučava neka religija, koja ipak nije postojala pre nekoliko hiljada godina.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
― Nietzsche

“How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

“A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.”
― August Strindberg

“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”
― August Strindberg, The ghost sonata

“The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Frost

“So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.”
― Marquis de Sade

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
― Novalis

“Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.”
― Novalis

“We are close to waking when we dream that we are dreaming.”
― Novalis, Philosophical Writings

“The human phenomenon is but the sum
Of densely coiled layers of illusion
Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity
That there are persons of any kind
When all there can be is mindless mirrors
Laughing and screaming as they parade about
in an endless dream
”
― Thomas Ligotti

“The body is a fortuitous concourse of atoms. There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms. Their changing places and taking different forms is what we call 'death.' It's a process which restores the energy level in nature that has gone down. In reality, nothing is born and nothing is dead.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti

“Sudovi, vrednosni sudovi o životu, za ili protiv, ne mogu naposletku nikada biti istiniti: oni imaju vrednost samo kao simptomi, oni dolaze u obzir samo kao simptomi - takvi sudovi su sami po sebi budalaštine.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
― Voltaire

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

“We are already in Hell. It is the earth itself that is Hell, the prison constructed for us by an intelligence superior to our own, in which I could not take a step without injuring the happiness of others, and in which my fellow creatures could not enjoy their own happiness without causing me pain.”
― August Strindberg

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause”
― David Hume

“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.”
― David Hume

“One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.”
― Lev Shestov, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths

“To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe

“The dread of being stares us in the eye, and in a deadly gush we perceive how the minds are dangling in threads of their own spinning, and that a hell is lurking underneath.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe, Essays

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

“Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be.
Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.”
― Leonid Andreyev