NN > NN's Quotes

“Wat is er met PJ?”
― PJ de B.

“A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.”
― Leszek Kolakowski, Metaphysical Horror

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Nobody took care of Lazarus, he no longer had any relatives or friends, and the great desert, which embraced the holy city, approached the very threshold of his dwelling place. And she came into his house, and she sprawled across his bed, like a wife, and she extinguished the fires.”
― Leonid Andreyev, Lazarus

“Um allein zu leben, muss man ein Thier oder ein Gott sein - sagt Aristoteles. Fehlt der dritte Fall: man muss Beides sein - Philosoph....”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every age mourns its weapons as uniquely horrifying, its warfare as
uniquely hopeless. Without historical perspective, each new
development in war seems like its end—from the “unholy” crossbow to
the “apocalyptic” cannon, the “cowardly” submarine to the “inhuman”
drone.”
― Alaric, Schizoposting

“Nothing ever happens”—the true threat of modernity is not
technological progress, but the use of technology to freeze man in a
state of suspended animation.”
― Alaric, Schizoposting