"Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes
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“The certain, lonely knowledge [120] that everything is vain but grief.”
― Canti
― Canti
“No little part of the torment of existence lies in this, that Time is continually pressing upon us, never letting us take breath, but always coming after us, like a taskmaster with a whip. If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the misery of boredom.”
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
“Within the secular world picture, Neuromania and Darwinitis are the biggest piles of rubbish.”
― Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
― Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
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“Once the concept of information is liberated from the idea of a conscious someone being informed and from that of a conscious someone doing the informing, anything is possible. Language bewitches us and we imagine that the problem of consciousness has been solved when in fact is has simply been concealed by verbal legerdemain.”
― Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
― Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
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