He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.
The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.
I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.
Psychologically, the choice “to think or not” is the choice “to focus or not.” Existentially, the choice “to focus or not” is the choice “to be conscious or not.” Metaphysically, the choice “to be conscious or not” is the choice of life or death.
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.
I dont work with collectives. I don’t consult, i don’t co-operate, I don’t collaborate.
No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It’s so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack.
There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours.
She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.
One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance. There’s no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes.
Every loneliness is a pinnacle.
Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.
It is a sin to write this.
I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.
There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.
Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man’s first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.
When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.