Alone
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." - Sir Francis Bacon
"To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both -…
Americans
"It is one of my firmest and most sacred beliefs… that the government of the United States, in both its legislative and its executive arm, is ignorant, incompetent, corrupt, and disgusting… that the administration of justice in the Republic is…
Amphibians
"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time." - C. S. Lewis, 1898-1963
"We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep…
Animals
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - George Orwell
"Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate entity." - Erich Fromm
"Man…
Animals II
"All men who would surpass the other animals should do their utmost not to go through life unheralded like the brutes whom nature made to face the ground, obedient to their bellies." - Sallust, The War with Catiline, pub. 40…
Animals III
"You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine monthsl It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or…
Angelic Language
"The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them." - Anatole France
"The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the…
Answers & Questions
"The only interesting answers are those which destroy the question." - Susan Sontag
"What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary…
Antichrist
"We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity." - Isadora Duncan, 1878-1927
"Inside every saint there…
Antinomianism
"I agree with Nietzche that to be truly free, one must commit evil [acts]" - Georges Bataille
"Man is evil - all the wisest men have told me that to comfort me. Oh, if only this were true today! For…
