Wissenville

“To believe that one should be happy just to be alive, despite leading a hideous existence, is to think like a slave; to think that it is pleasant to have an ordinary and comfortable life, is to have the emotions of an animal; men, however, become so blind that they cannot even see that they do not live or think like human beings. People squirm in agitation before a dark wall and dream about buying washing machines and television sets; they anxiously look to tomorrow, even though it will bring nothing.”
― Yukio Mishima

“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
― Maimonides

“We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.”
― Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations