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“Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or that. Their spirit (provided we can still talk about a spirit in their case) feeds only on sensations and on dynamism, thus becoming the vehicle for the incarnation of darker forces.”
― Revolt Against the Modern World
― Revolt Against the Modern World
“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“When we meet somebody whose separate tunnel-reality is obviously far different from ours, we are a bit frightened and always disoriented. We tend to think they are mad, or that they are crooks trying to con us in some way, or that they are hoaxers playing a joke. Yet it is neurologically obvious that no two brains have the same genetically-programmed hard wiring, the same imprints, the same conditioning, the same learning experiences. We are all living in separate realities. That is why communication fails so often, and misunderstandings and resentments are so common. I say "meow" and you say "Bow-wow," and each of us is convinced the other is a bit dumb.”
― Prometheus Rising
― Prometheus Rising
“Ihr müßt an die absolute und endgültige Macht des Willens glauben, den man mit unerbittlicher Disziplin trainieren und verstärken muß,bis er aus unseren Nervenzentren schießt und sich mit unvorstellbarer Kraft und Geschwindigkeit über die Grenzen unserer Muskeln hinwegsetzt. Unser Wille muß aus uns heraustreten, um sich der Materie zu bemächtigen und sie nach unserem Belieben zu verändern. Auf diese Weise können wir alles, was uns umgibt, formen und endlos das Antlitz der Welt erneuern.”
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“I conclude therefore that, fortune being changeful and mankind steadfast in their ways, so long as the two are in agreement men are successful, but unsuccessful when they fall out. For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her.”
― The Prince
― The Prince
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