Michael Overman

“Luxury is infantilization.”
― Matthew Edward Hall

“Nothing is more whole than a broken heart.”
― Yoav Ben-Dov, Tarot: The Open Reading

“Higher man is a tragedy. With his graves he leaves behind the earth a battlefield and a wasteland. He has drawn plant and animal, the sea and mountain into his decline. He has painted the face of the world with blood, deformed and mutilated it. But there was greatness in it. When he is no more, his destiny will have been something great.”
― Oswald Spengler, Frühzeit der Weltgeschichte: Fragmente aus dem Nachlass

“Faced as we are with this destiny, there is only one world. Outlook that is worthy of us, that which has already been mentioned as the Choice of Achilles — better a short life, lull of deeds and glory, than a long life without content. Already the danger is so great, for every individual, every class, every people, that to cherish any illusion whatever is deplorable. Time does not suffer itself to be halted; there is no question of prudent retreat or wise renunciation. Only dreamers believe that there is a way out. Optimism is cowardice.”
― Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life