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“What the modern world offers average men is a thousand and one ways to safely spank our monkey brains into oblivion.”
― The Way of Men
― The Way of Men
“Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the applause of the populace. Just as it was started on its first day, so it will run; nowhere will it turn aside, nowhere will it delay. And what will be the result? You have been engrossed, life hastens by; meanwhile death will be at hand, for which, willy nilly, you must find leisure.”
― On the Shortness of Life
― On the Shortness of Life
“If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.”
― On the Shortness of Life
― On the Shortness of Life
“All those who summon you to themselves, turn you away from your own self.”
― On the Shortness of Life
― On the Shortness of Life
“The cost of civilization is a progressive trade-off of vital existence. It’s a trade of the real for the artificial, for the convincing con, made for the promise of security and a full belly.”
― The Way of Men
― The Way of Men
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