Quotes, Excerpts, Anecdotes.

Max Stirner wrote:

Those who exhort men to "unselfishness" think they are saying an uncommon deal. What do they understand by it? Probably something like what they understand by "self-renunciation." But who is this self that is to be renounced and to have no benefit? It seems that you yourself are supposed to be it. And for whose benefit is unselfish self-renunciation recommended to you? Again for your benefit and behoof, only that through unselfishness you are procuring your "true benefit".

You are to benefit yourself, and yet you are not to seek your benefit. People regard the unselfish the benefactor of men.

Adolf Hitler wrote:

In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.

It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.

Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote:

 The world says: “You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don’t hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more.” This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

Hermes Trismegistus (Newton Trans.) wrote:

Tis true without lying, certain & most true.
That which is below is like that which is above & that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing
And as all things have been & arose from one by the mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation.
The Sun is its father, the moon its mother, the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth is its nurse.
The father of all perfection in the whole world is here.
Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
Separate thou the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross sweetly with great industry.
It ascends from the earth to the heaven & again it descends to the earth & receives the force of things superior & inferior.
By this means you shall have the glory of the whole world
& thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.
Its force is above all force. For it vanquishes every subtle thing & penetrates every solid thing.
So was the world created.
From this are & do come admirable adaptations whereof the means (or process) is here in this. Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world
That which I have said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished & ended.

“The Department of Transportation, in its single-minded pursuit of traffic flow, has destroyed more American towns than General Sherman.” — Andrés Duany [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

— Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

This photo reminds me of the great Ivan Illich: "What modern man wants is not more liberty as a citizen but better service as a client. He does not insist on his freedom to move and to speak to people but on his claim to be shipped and to be informed by media." [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

— Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

AutSider wrote:

Satyr wrote:

I envision a future like Balderunner.
An endless landscape of urbanization, continuous rainfall due to the meting of all snow and ice, raising the water levels and covering more of the earth's surface, resulting in more humidity and more precipitation.
More humidity will block sunlight from reaching the surface of the earth, lowering temperatures and increasing snowfall.    

Cruse, Harold wrote:

The original Negro jazz was ‘puerile,’ ‘shapeless and chaotic.’
It was left to Jewish musicians and composers to polish up this pristine black music and render it sophisticated enough for presentation to the general public.  

Cruse, Harold wrote:

The original Negro jazz was ‘puerile,’ ‘shapeless and chaotic.’
It was left to Jewish musicians and composers to polish up this pristine black music and render it sophisticated enough for presentation to the general public.  

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The right wing mystic is a paradox, because he must enter the spirit world while maintaining his connection to his body and to the earth. The left wing mystic dreams of abandoning his body all together, the fantasy of the upload

— Zero HP Lovecraft (@duckevenfree1) [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

This guy was clued in decades ago [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

— Nation Wrecking Fellow (@thetolerantman) [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Leonardo Da Vinci wrote:

*Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occasion of folly.

*Experience is not at fault: it is only our judgment that is in error in promising itself from experience things which are not within her power.Wrongly do men cry out against experience and with bitter reproaches accuse her of deceitfulness. Let experience alone, and rather turn your complaints against your own ignorance, which causes you to be so carried away by your vain and insensate desires as to expect from experience things which are not within her power!
Wrongly do men cry out against innocent experience, accusing her often of deceit and lying demonstrations!

*Two weaknesses leaning together create a strength. Therefore, the half of the world leaning against the half becomes firm.

*While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

*Man has great power of speech, but the greater part thereof is empty and deceitful. The animals have little, but that little is useful and true; and better is a small and certain thing than a great falsehood.

*Water struck by water creates circles at a great distance round the spot where it is struck; the voice in the air goes further, in fire further still; mind ranges over the universe but being finite it does not extend into infinity.

*What is it that is much desired by men, but which they know not while possessing? It is sleep.

*Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.

*Levity is born of gravity and gravity of levity; repaying in the same instant the boon of their creation they grow the more in power as they grow in life and have the more life in proportion as they have more movement; in the same instant also they destroy one another in the common vendetta of their death.

*Lo some who can call themselves nothing more than a passage for food, producers of dung, fillers up of privies, for of them nothing else appears in the world, nor in there any virtue in their work, nothing of them remains but full privies.


*Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest. This dwells in time, and stretches its limbs into past and the future, and with these takes to itself all works that are past and those that are to come, both of nature and of the animals, and possesses nothing of the indivisible present. It does not however extend to the essence of anything.

Thomas Carlyle wrote:

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. Not the sincerity that calls itself sincere; ah no, that is a very poor matter indeed;--a shallow braggart conscious sincerity; oftenest self-conceit mainly. The Great Man’s sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere! The Great Fact of existence is great to him. Fly as he will, he cannot get out of the awful presence of this Reality. His mind is so made; he is great by that, first of all. Fearful and wonderful, real as Life, real as Death, is the Universe to him. Though all men should forget its truth, and walk in a vain show, he cannot. At all moments, the Flame-image glares-in upon him; undeniable, there, there!—I wish you to take this as my primary definition of a Great Man.

C. Jung wrote:

The Aryan subconscious has a higher potential than the Jewish.

C. Jung wrote:

The Jews have this particularity in common with women; being physically weaker, they have to aim at the chinks in the armour of their adversary.

C. Jung wrote:

The Jew, who is something of a nomad, has never yet created a cultural form of his own, and as far as we can see, never will, since all his instincts and talents require a more or less civilized nation to act as host for their development.

Epicurus wrote:

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Michel De Montaigne wrote:

It is not our follies that make me laugh, but our wisdom.

If people complain that i speak too much of myself, i complain that they do not think of themselves at all.

Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote:

I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors. It's just one's neighbors, to my mind, that one can't love, though one might love those at a distance. I once read somewhere of John the Merciful, a saint, that when a hungry, frozen beggar came to him, he took him into his bed, held him in his arms and began breathing into his mouth, which was putrid and loathsome from some awful disease. I am convinced that he did that from "self-laceration", from the self-laceration of falsity, for the sake of charity imposed by duty, as a penance laid on him. For any one to love a man, he must be hidden for as soon as he shows his face, love is gone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:

The world is his who can see through its pretension