“It cannot be effaced from a man's soul what his ancestors have preferably and most constantly done: whether they were perhaps diligent economizers attached to a desk and a cash-box, modest and citizen-like in their desires, modest also in their virtues; or whether they were accustomed to commanding from morning till night, fond of rude pleasures and probably of still ruder duties and responsibilities; or whether, finally, at one time or another, they have sacrificed old privileges of birth and possession, in order to live wholly for their faith—for their "God,"—as men of an inexorable and sensitive conscience, which blushes at every compromise. It is quite impossible for a man NOT to have the qualities and predilections of his parents and ancestors in his constitution, whatever appearances may suggest to the contrary. This is the problem of race. Granted that one knows something of the parents, it is admissible to draw a conclusion about the child: any kind of offensive incontinence, any kind of sordid envy, or of clumsy self-vaunting—the three things which together have constituted the genuine plebeian type in all times—such must pass over to the child, as surely as bad blood; and with the help of the best education and culture one will only succeed in DECEIVING with regard to such heredity.—And what else does education and culture try to do nowadays! In our very democratic, or rather, very plebeian age, "education" and "culture" MUST be essentially the art of deceiving—deceiving with regard to origin, with regard to the inherited plebeianism in body and soul. An educator who nowadays preached truthfulness above everything else, and called out constantly to his pupils: "Be true! Be natural! Show yourselves as you are!"—even such a virtuous and sincere ass would learn in a short time to have recourse to the FURCA of Horace, NATURAM EXPELLERE: with what results? "Plebeianism" USQUE RECURRET.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“როცა ხალხს ამდენი მოღალატე შინა ჰყავს, მაკედონელიც ვერ გაამარჯვებინებს მას, პიპა.”
― ტომი 5. დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა
― ტომი 5. დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა
“Think of one of your most memorable sexual experiences. Although often sex gets stuck in one rhythm, sometimes we ride the whole wave. Sensuous and slow, gentle and tender your energies flow together. As it heats up, your passion ignites into a pulsing staccato beat. As you lose control, moving beyond all thinking and fears, you surrender to the orgasmic rhythm of chaos. And then there’s the luscious lingering of the altered lyrical state before we settle into the afterglow, the bliss of stillness.”
― Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement
― Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
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“მართლაც და სხვა რა ევალება ოსტატს, თუ არ წამიერის მარადჟამულად ქცევა? სხვა რა ევალება ამ ქვეყნად ოსტატს, თუ არ ჭიდილი წარმავლობის ნისლთან?”
― დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა
― დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა
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