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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 evil is man's strength. Man must grow better and more evil - this [...]
Apes II
"I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape." - Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape
"Perhaps the remote ancestors of human beings were apes, though no evolutionist has made clear to me reasons for doubting the equally plausible theory that apes have either ascended, or descended, from [...]
Art
"What is art, what is life, who am I?" - Salvador Dali
"Art, that great undogmatized church." - Ellen Key
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Pablo Picasso
"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self." - Jean-Luc Godard
"Art is [...]
Cells
"Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while." - Unknown
"Feces on the other hand make no attempt to endure or to grow. On that score we are far more unfortunate than shit; our frenzy to persist in our present state - that's the unconscionable torture - [...]
Cocoon
"The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere." - James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891
"So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every [...]
Doomed
"I envisioned my circumstance was the result of some child deity with an incredibly short attention span: a demigod whose most frivolous thoughts effortlessly gave birth to universes of which it is hardly aware. Meanwhile, the spontaneous creations, such as myself, are doomed to act out this lord's unconscious fantasies long after it has [...]
Fanaticism
"In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice." - Louis Kronenberger
"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim." - George Santayana
Forty
"There are 40 kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense." - African Proverb
God II
"It is absurd to call him a God of justice and goodness, who inflicts evil indiscriminately on the good and the wicked, upon the innocent and the guilty. It is idle to demand the the unfortunate should console themselves for their misfortunes in the very arms of the one who alone is the author [...]
Gods Thought
"The universe is one of God's thoughts." - Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805
"The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind - a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house." - Woody Allen, Getting Even
