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“The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort -- "happiness." He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.”
― Aphorisms
― Aphorisms
“Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.”
― The Decline of the West
― The Decline of the West
“History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.”
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“What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.”
― The Decline of the West, Vol 2: Perspectives of World History
― The Decline of the West, Vol 2: Perspectives of World History
“For the Age has itself become vulgar, and most people have no idea to what extent they are themselves tainted. The bad manners of all parliaments, the general tendency to connive at a rather shady business transaction if it promises to bring in money without work, jazz and Negro dances as the spiritual outlet in all circles of society, women painted like prostitutes, the efforts of writers to win popularity by ridiculing in their novels and plays the correctness of well-bred people, and the bad taste shown even by the nobility and old princely families in throwing off every kind of social restraint and time-honoured custom: all of these go to prove that it is now the vulgar mob that gives the tone.”
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