“Oddly enough, living only for one’s emotions, like a flag obedient to the breeze, demands a way of life that makes one balk at the natural course of events, for this implies being altogether subservient to nature. The life of the emotions detests all constraints, whatever their origin, and thus, ironically enough, is apt eventually to fetter its own instinctive sense of freedom.”
― Spring Snow
― Spring Snow
“Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.”
― Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
― Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
“Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls.”
― Spring Snow
― Spring Snow
“Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.”
― Industrial Society and Its Future
― Industrial Society and Its Future
“The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.”
― Revolt Against the Modern World
― Revolt Against the Modern World
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