Ernesto

“The West: a sweet-smelling rottenness, a perfumed corpse.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“To will [Wollen]! Great words! pointer on the scales of the Last Judgment, the bridge between heaven and hell! Reason is not the light shining from heaven, but only a sign post set up by ourselves and directed to the chosen goal, that it may show us the direction when the goal itself is concealed. But one can direct it to hell just as well to heaven.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, Vol 1: Early Manuscripts 1804-18

“For the Greeks, physical exercise was an ethic for developing freely and harmoniously the form and strength of the human body. For the Romans, it was a technique for increasing the legionnaire's efficiency. The Roman conception prevails today.”
― Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society

“Only from within himself can a person know the depth of the world: in him lie the interconnections of the world.”
― Otto Weininger, Aphoristic Writings, Notebook, and Letters to a Friend