“Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.”
― The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
― The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
“Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. "No artist tolerates reality," says Nietzsche. That
is true, but no artist can get along without reality. Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of
the world. But it rejects the world on account of what it lacks and in the name of what it sometimes is.
Rebellion can be observed here in its pure state and in its original complexities. Thus art should give us a
final perspective on the content of rebellion.”
― The Rebel
is true, but no artist can get along without reality. Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of
the world. But it rejects the world on account of what it lacks and in the name of what it sometimes is.
Rebellion can be observed here in its pure state and in its original complexities. Thus art should give us a
final perspective on the content of rebellion.”
― The Rebel
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
― I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
“Who, despite the pretensions of this society, can sleep in it in peace when they know that it derives its mediocre pleasures from the work of millions of dead souls?”
― The Rebel
― The Rebel
“Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks.”
“You might not think so if you were a duck.”
― The Book of Strange New Things
“You might not think so if you were a duck.”
― The Book of Strange New Things
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