Kade
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While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings. The men who burned their fellow-men for a moment, believed that God would burn his enemies forever.
Robert Green Ingersoll, "Crumbling Creeds" The Twentieth Century, N. Y., April 24, 1890
GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.
Percy Bysshe Shelley "Declaration of Rights" (1812), Article 1
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour.
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: A Memoir (1951)
I suppose every child has a world of his own — and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that's the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?
Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano (1952)
I never saw a wild thing
Sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D.H. Lawrence, Self-Pity (1929)
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings. The men who burned their fellow-men for a moment, believed that God would burn his enemies forever.
Robert Green Ingersoll, "Crumbling Creeds" The Twentieth Century, N. Y., April 24, 1890
GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.
Percy Bysshe Shelley "Declaration of Rights" (1812), Article 1
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour.
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: A Memoir (1951)
I suppose every child has a world of his own — and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that's the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?
Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano (1952)
I never saw a wild thing
Sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D.H. Lawrence, Self-Pity (1929)
I think maybe because you're the kind of person who appreciates stuff like this.
