Dimitris Dimarelos

“Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.”
― Idries Shah, Knowing How to Know : A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition

“Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“Zarathustra, the first to recognize that the optimist is just as degenerate as the pessimist though perhaps more detrimental says: “Good men never speak the truth.  The Good preach of false shores and false security.  You were born and bred in the lies of the good.  Through the good everything has become false and twisted down to the very roots”.  Fortunately the world is not built solely to serve good natured herd animals their little happiness  ; to desire everybody to become a “good man”, “a herd animal”, blue-eyed, benevolent, “a beautiful soul”— or, as Herbert Spencer wished—altruistic, would mean robbing existence of its great character, to castrate mankind and reduce humanity to a sort of wretched Chinadom. And this some have tried to do!  It is precisely this that men have called morality. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is

“If literature stays away from evil, it rapidly becomes boring.”
― Georges Bataille