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“Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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“A crowd in its very concept is the untruth, by reason of the fact that it renders the individual completely impenitent and irresponsible, or at least weakens his sense of responsibility by reducing it to a fraction.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: the-individual

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“That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.”
― W.E.H. Lecky, The Map of Life, Conduct, and Character

tags: philosophical, politics, wisdom

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“Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

tags: nietzsche

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“You know the direct, legitimate fruit of consciousness is inertia, that is, conscious sitting-with-the-hands-folded. I have referred to this already. I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all “direct” persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain that? I will tell you:”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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