As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
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But in the ’nineties young men desired something more sweeping and passionate, more bold and less bland.
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death.
She has tender feet, for she walks not on the hard earth, but treads on the heads of men.
As Epictetus says, men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.
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The method of learning by trial and error — of learning from our mistakes — seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practiced by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees or by men of science.
It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.
Some men are born posthumously.
Most men are not wicked… They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.