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“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
― Friedrich Neitzsche

“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World

“Every Man Mistakes the Limits of His Vision For The Limits Of The World..”
― Arthur Schoppenhauer

“Genius lives only one storey above madness”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people,—the less, indeed, other people can be to him. This is why a high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial. True,”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

“Some men are born posthumously.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.”
― Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm

“Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!”
― Pablo Picasso

“Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typical French toilet, on the contrary, the hole is at the back, i.e. shit is supposed to disappear as quickly as possible. Finally, the American (Anglo-Saxon) toilet presents a synthesis, a mediation between these opposites: the toilet basin is full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible, but not to be inspected. [...] It is clear that none of these versions can be accounted for in purely utilitarian terms: each involves a certain ideological perception of how the subject should relate to excrement. Hegel was among the first to see in the geographical triad of Germany, France and England an expression of three different existential attitudes: reflective thoroughness (German), revolutionary hastiness (French), utilitarian pragmatism (English). In political terms, this triad can be read as German conservatism, French revolutionary radicalism and English liberalism. [...] The point about toilets is that they enable us not only to discern this triad in the most intimate domain, but also to identify its underlying mechanism in the three different attitudes towards excremental excess: an ambiguous contemplative fascination; a wish to get rid of it as fast as possible; a pragmatic decision to treat it as ordinary and dispose of it in an appropriate way. It is easy for an academic at a round table to claim that we live in a post-ideological universe, but the moment he visits the lavatory after the heated discussion, he is again knee-deep in ideology.”
― Slavoj Žižek, The Plague of Fantasies

“You can’t change the masses. They will always be the same: dumb, gluttonous and forgetful.”
― Joseph Goebbels

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
― T.S. Eliot, The Rock

“What we are against will unite us, while what we are for divides us. Therefore, we should emphasise what we oppose. The common enemy unites us, while the positive values each of us are defending actually divides us. Therefore, we must create strategic alliances to overthrow the present order of things, of which the core could be described as human rights, anti-hierarchy, and political correctness – everything that is the face of the Beast, the anti-Christ or, in other terms, Kali-Yuga.”
― Alexander Dugin