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“Alle Wege führen zur Erkenntnis der Nichtigkeit aller Dinge, aber keiner führt zurück.”
― Juli Zeh, Spieltrieb

“Was die Menschen täglich ihre Entscheidungen nennen, ist nichts weiter als ein gut einstudiertes Spiel.”
― Juli Zeh, Spieltrieb

“Ich bilde schon lange keine Meinungen mehr. Ich sage Dinge, weil sie besser klingen als andere, die ich ebenfalls hätte sagen können.”
― Juli Zeh, Spieltrieb

“Der Pragmatismus ersetzt uns alles, was früher die großen Ideen, die Ideologien und Religionen, der Glaube an Friede, Menschenrechte und Demokratie zu bieten hatten. Der Pragmatismus hält uns davon ab, zu Verbrechern zu werden, oder er macht uns zu solchen, wenn es nötig ist. Er legitimiert das Bestehen von Rechtssystem, Familie und Arbeit, er lässt uns nett sein und empfiehlt, sich ein angenehmes Äußeres zu erwerben. Nachdem wir uns aller Zwänge nach und nach erledigt haben, sorgt ein einziger Betreuer für uns: Pragmatismus.”
― Juli Zeh, Spieltrieb

“„Wir wissen nicht, was andere Menschen denken oder fühlen, wir interpretieren ihr Verhalten und sind dann wegen unserer eigenen Gedanken beleidigt.“ Ich”
― Michael Nast, Generation Beziehungsunfähig: Der Nr.1 SPIEGEL-Bestseller

“Wir sind Schüler von heute, die in Schulen von gestern von Lehrern von vorgestern mit Methoden aus den Anfängen der industriellen Revolution auf die Probleme von übermorgen vorbereitet werden.”
― Michael Nast, Generation Beziehungsunfähig: Der Nr.1 SPIEGEL-Bestseller

“Also nutzt eure Talente, verwirklicht eure Träume. Wagt etwas. Springt. Bevor ihr das Wort „eigentlich“ durch Worte wie „hätte“ und „wäre“ ersetzen müsst. Durch Worte, die verpasste Chancen umschreiben. Denn dann hat man sich arrangiert. Dann hat man wirklich aufgegeben. Endgültig.”
― Michael Nast, Generation Beziehungsunfähig: Der Nr.1 SPIEGEL-Bestseller

“Letztlich machen wir einen Denkfehler. Wir richten unsere Aufmerksamkeit auf die Symptome. Es geht den meisten nur um das richtige Schmerzmittel, und nicht um die Heilung. Eigentlich sollte man, wie bei der Behandlung einer Krankheit, nicht die Symptome bekämpfen - sondern die Ursachen. das wäre der erste Schritt.”
― Michael Nast, Generation Beziehungsunfähig

“Narzisstische Liebe ist die Sehnsucht nach einem wohlwollenden Spiegel, in dem man ein Bild sieht, das einem schmeichelt. Man sehnt sich nicht nach dem Anblick seiner Fehler, man sehnt sich nach Bestätigung. Man projiziert ein Bild auf den anderen und verliebt sich letztendlich in eine Illusion, die perfekt zu einem passt, die mit dem Menschen aber selbst nichts zu tun hat. Man”
― Michael Nast, Generation Beziehungsunfähig: Der Nr.1 SPIEGEL-Bestseller

“Wenn sich meine Eltern hin und wieder laut fragen, wann ich denn nun endlich erwachsen werde, ist das natürlich kritisch gemeint. Ich sehe ihre Kritik allerdings eher als Kompliment. Es”
― Michael Nast, Generation Beziehungsunfähig: Der Nr.1 SPIEGEL-Bestseller

“Man sagt ja, dass es heutzutage zu den aufrichtigsten Komplimenten gehört, wenn man bei einem Treffen sein Handy unbeachtet in der Tasche lässt.”
― Michael Nast, Generation Beziehungsunfähig: Der Nr.1 SPIEGEL-Bestseller

“Sicherheit macht träge. Man bevorzugt die sichere Zufriedenheit, man lebt einen Kompromiss und bezeichnet das als vernünftig. Irgendwann stellt man fest, dass man so viele Kompromisse gemacht hat, dass das eigene Leben zu einem Kompromiss geworden ist.”
― Michael Nast, Generation Beziehungsunfähig: Der Nr.1 SPIEGEL-Bestseller

“Niemand ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als jene, die fälschlicherweise glauben, frei zu sein.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Worldview" is not based on books; it is an internal form, which at times in a person with little education is expressed much more brightly, than in some other "intellectual" or scientist.”
― Julius Evola

“For the authentic revolutionary conservative, what really counts is to be faithful not to past forms and institutions, but rather to principles of which such forms and institutions have been particular expressions, adequate for a specific period of time and in a specific geographical area.”
― Julius Evola, Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist

“There is a superior unity of all those who despite all, fight in different parts of the world the same battle, lead the same revolt, and are the bearers of the same intangible Tradition. These forces appear to be scattered and isolated in the world, and yet are inexorably connected by a common essence that is meant to preserve the absolute ideal of the Imperium and to work for its return.”
― Julius Evola, Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist

“To know, according to Wisdom, does not mean “to think”, but to be the thing known: to live it, to realise it inwardly. One does not really know a thing unless one can actively transform one’s consciousness into it.”
― Julius Evola, Pagan Imperialism

“Be radical, have principles, be absolute, be that which the bourgeoisie calls an extremist: give yourself without counting or calculating, don't accept what they call ‘the reality of life' and act in such a way that you won't be accepted by that kind of ‘life', never abandon the principle of struggle.”
― Julius Evola

“Nothing is more evident than that modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical; both of their ideals are qualitatively identical, including the premises connected to a world the centre of which is constituted of technology, science, production, "productivity," and "consumption." And as long as we only talk about economic classes, profit, salaries, and production, and as long as we believe that real human progress is determined by a particular system of distribution of wealth and goods, and that, generally speaking, human progress is measured by the degree of wealth or indigence—then we are not even close to what is essential...”
― Julius Evola, Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist

“What I am about to say does not concern the ordinary man of our day. On the contrary, I have in mind the man who finds himself involved in today's world, even at its problematic and paroxysmal points; yet he does not belong inwardly to such a world, nor will he give in to it. He feels himself, in essence, as belonging to a different race from that of the overwhelming majority of his contemporaries.

The natural place for such a man, the land in which he would not be a stranger, is the world of Tradition.”
― Julius Evola, Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

“The best and most authentic reaction against feminism and against every other female aberration should not be aimed at women as such, but at men instead. It should not be expected of women that they return to what they really are and thus reestablish the necessary inner and outer conditions for a reintegration of a superior race, when men themselves retain only the semblance of true virility.”
― Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

“Even without being killed a man can experience death, he can conquer, he can realize the culmination characteristic of a 'super-life'. From a higher point of view, Paradise, the Kingdom of Heaven, Valhalla, the Island of the Heroes, etc., are only symbolic figurations forged for the masses, figurations that in reality designate transcendent states of consciousness, beyond life and death. The ancient Aryan tradition used the term jivan-mukti to indicate such a realization while still in the mortal body.”
― Julius Evola

“The traditional sacred king was himself of a divine nature and the 'gods' were his peers; he was, like them, of 'celestial' stock, he had the same blood as they; he was thus a centre, an affirmative, free, and cosmic principle.”
― Julius Evola

“If a 'superman' undoubtedly constitutes a central idea of the whole of Nietzschean thought, it is in terms of a 'positive superman', it is not that grotesqueness in the style of d’Annunzio, nor the 'blond beast of prey' (this is one of Nietzsche’s poorest expressions) and not even the exceptional individual who incarnates a maximum of the 'will to power', 'beyond good and evil', however without any light and without a higher sanction.

The positive superman, which suits the 'better Nietzsche', is instead to be identified with the human type who even in a nihilistic, devastated, absurd, godless world knows how to stand on his feet, because he is capable of giving himself a law from himself, in accordance with a new higher freedom.”
― Julius Evola

“Any vital, individual, social, or moral process that goes in this direction and leads to the fulfillment of the person according to his own nature is truly ascending.”
― Julius Evola, Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist

“Fidelity is what cannot be bought or sold. It obeys a law and attaches itself to a necessity. Convenience can be calculated, but fides can only be established by the spontaneous act of a man who is capable of inner nobility. Fides means personality and hierarchy.”
― Julius Evola

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are
presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is
extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it
is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,
ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his "normal" contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves.”
― Erich fromm, The Art of Being

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being

“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”
― Theodore Kaczynski