Mona

“We are so used to looking at the world from the point of view of living things that we cannot understand what it means not to be alive, and yet most of the time the world had nothing alive on it. And in most places in the universe today there probably is nothing alive.”
― Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

“Solitude has seven skins; nothing gets through any more.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“Hell is a collection of individuals who are spending the bulk of their time working on a task they don’t like and are not especially good at.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“Zarathustra, the first to recognize that the optimist is just as degenerate as the pessimist though perhaps more detrimental says: “Good men never speak the truth.  The Good preach of false shores and false security.  You were born and bred in the lies of the good.  Through the good everything has become false and twisted down to the very roots”.  Fortunately the world is not built solely to serve good natured herd animals their little happiness  ; to desire everybody to become a “good man”, “a herd animal”, blue-eyed, benevolent, “a beautiful soul”— or, as Herbert Spencer wished—altruistic, would mean robbing existence of its great character, to castrate mankind and reduce humanity to a sort of wretched Chinadom. And this some have tried to do!  It is precisely this that men have called morality. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is