Justin Labelle

“But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, FRANKENSTEIN or The Modern Prometheus: uncensored 1818 edition

“Thrasymachos. Tell me now, in one word, what shall I be after my death? And mind you be clear and precise. Philalethes. All and nothing! Thrasymachos. I thought so! I gave you a problem, and you solve it by a contradiction. That's a very stale trick. Philalethes. Yes, but you raise transcendental questions, and you expect me to answer them in language that is only made for immanent knowledge. It's no wonder that a contradiction ensues.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“Only that which is innate is genuine and will hold water; and every man who wants to achieve something, whether in practical life, in literature, or in art, must follow the rules without knowing them.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“what penalty can frighten a man who is not afraid of death itself?”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism