“Humanity’s self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”
― The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
― The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
“The man who has come to know vice in connection with pleasure... imagines that virtue must be associated with displeasure.”
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Everything harmonizes with me which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early nor too late, which is in due time for thee. Everything is fruit to me which thy season brings, O Nature: from thee are all things, in thee are all things, to thee all things return.”
― Meditation Marcus Aurelius: Thoughts & Life Lessons of Wise Emperor
― Meditation Marcus Aurelius: Thoughts & Life Lessons of Wise Emperor
“Life has become the ideology of its own absence.”
― Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
― Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
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