The common run of people... betray their utter slavishness in their preference for a life suitable to cattle. ~ Aristotle
A fool can neither escape the future nor endure the present. ~ Cicero
Men are so blind that they even take pride in their blindness. ~ Augustine of Hippo
There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ~ Henry Fielding
Whoever fails to degrade the mind avenges himself by insulting it. ~ Beaumarchais
Then why has God put us on earth? To drive us mad. ~ Voltaire
Is not the existence of the most of mankind largely the result of a hot July afternoon, or the tempting sight of bed-linen, or the horizontal position of some sleeping kitchen nymph, or the putting out of a light? ~ Friedrich Schiller
Man is born of filth, and wades a little while in filth, and makes filth, and rots down again in filth, till at the last he’s not more than the muck that sticks to the soles of his great-grandson’s shoes. ~ Friedrich Schiller
Man is very lavish in the use of the word 'fool' and is ready to apply it twenty times a day to his neighbor. ~ Nikolai Gogol
And it became abundantly clear what sort of creature man is: wise, clever, and sensible in all things that concern others but not himself. ~ Nikolai Gogol
Man is capable of understanding everything: how the ether vibrates, and what's taking place on the sun; but when it comes to how another man can blow his nose in a way that differs from one's own-- why, that's something beyond one's powers of comprehension. ~ Ivan Turgeney
The bite on which I gagged the most is not the knowledge that life itself requires hostility and death and torture-crosses--but once I asked, and I was almost choked by my question: What? does life require even the rabble? Are poisoned wells required, and stinking fires and soiled dreams and maggots in the bread of life? ~ Friedrich Nizstche
Nollaf's Tower Overture of Apathy and Emoness: Part One
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I very much enjoyed this post. You are in great company I see with men who enjoy nothing more than to question, and monologue.
ReplyDeleteQuotes are not to be used for making life decisions, only for momentary motivation or amusement. While tasty, they are slight, and often deceiving. - Mick West
ReplyDeleteA man may say one thing one day, and the opposite the next. Better to judge them by their actions, or their body of work, than a few choice words. You can pick and choose quotes to make people sound how you like. Examples:
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. - Aristotle
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age - Cicero
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. - Henry Fielding
Love truth, and pardon error. - Voltaire
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. - Friedrich Schiller
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. - Nikolai Gogol
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. - Ivan Turgeney
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I am aware the quotes shouldn't be used as guidelines to life, however of late some of my peers have been telling me to lighten up and this was for them. Of course odds are none of them will read it but its good to get it out there to prove them wrong that I'm not the only one out there.
ReplyDeleteTrue, but I think very few people, especially the people you quote, are truly misanthropic - they just have misanthropic aspects, to greater or lesser degrees.
ReplyDeleteEveryone feels some form of antipathy towards the masses (where the masses are basically everyone else).