The Mystery of What Befell in the Ditch Quotes

“Life-of-the-mind individuals never let their attention waver from what is heavenly-towardishly noble, not because they strive for it, but because there is no other direction to look, since life-of-the-mind individuals always place themselves furthest down, on the bottommost rung, in the sewers of society, at nature's nadir, incessantly ground down into the mud and the mire so that one day, millions of years from now, they become oil, life-of-the-mind oil, at the very bottom of life itself.”
― Thure Erik Lund, Grøftetildragelsesmysteriet

“From the very first, life-of-the-mind individuals must be prepared to assume the enormous personal costs of despising money, technology, and career, so as not to fall into defilement as individuals. The great mass of men who embrace plutocracy, industrial technology, and the synthetic extension of language naturally regard these few life-of-the-mind individuals as laggard, weary of life, and lacking belief in the future.”
― Thure Erik Lund, Grøftetildragelsesmysteriet

“The life-of-the-mind individual's lofty goal is to become a mature individual and to do so naturally. Life-of-the-mind individuals are indeed nothing less than the pure individuals of nature. Life-of-the-mind individuals are therefore characterized by the fact that everything they do, they do because they must. Life-of-the-mind individuals never do anything superfluous, haphazardly, in order to unwind, to while away the time, or to kill boredom.”
― Thure Erik Lund, Grøftetildragelsesmysteriet

“The very first thing a life-of-the-mind individual does once they have become a life-of-the-mind individual is to examine the all-encompassing ideology of youth to get to the bottom of how its notions manage to put people under its sway.”
― Thure Erik Lund, Grøftetildragelsesmysteriet

“Life-of-the-mind individuals register that when the new, modern individuals become adults, they're suddenly too old, life's passed them by, and it turns out they've spent their whole lives as children! Very few of them grow naturally into adulthood at the right time. Instead of becoming adults, most people become old children or outdated teenagers.”
― Thure Erik Lund, Grøftetildragelsesmysteriet

“There are fewer and fewer of us who cry over the awfulness of the world...while those who cry over themselves and their lot, and have their reasons for doing so, are steadily increasing. They drown out the rare few of us who actually cry over the state of the world. To distinguish the crying from one another is a miserable, hopeless endeavor.”
― Thure Erik Lund, Grøftetildragelsesmysteriet