"... Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn."
Sayfa 173
Asa: I'm quick to convince myself someone likes me... Then when I'm wrong, my feelings get hurt. A life of solitude really would be better than feeling like this. There's nothing even good about me. Who am I even living for? I only care about myself. Yet whenever I get lonely, I crave companionship. How arrogant is that? I'm just tired. Tired of my inability to maintain a lasting relationship with another human being. Maybe I'd be better off dead...
Yoru: Bullying is a commonality in communities without social fluidity, both human and devil.
"No human is always strong, but then no human is weak for ever, either."
Sayfa 74 - Transworld PublishersKitabı okuyor
“She had thought, in her nocturnal and suicidal hours, that solitude was the problem. But that was because it hadn’t been true solitude. The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, The free spirit
" There is some point of to 'truth' , to the search for truth; and if a human being goes about it too humanely - i wager he finds nothing!"
Sayfa 66Kitabı okudu
To be in touch with truth, we do not have to go to the core of the galaxy, because the core of a human being is also the same thing.
I am blue, but not like the sky.
I am black, but not like the darkness.
I am human like everyone else.
He looked very small atop the horse. For the first time, she saw him for what he was: not a fearsome shaman, not a mysterious Seer, but just a boy, really. She’d always thought Chaghan so ethereally powerful, so detached from the realm of mortals. But he was human after all, smaller and thinner than the rest of them.
"It is with human beings as it is with this tree.
The more they aspire to the heights and the light, the more strongly their roots strive earthward, downward, into darkness, depths – into evil.”
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Why are we such fools
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╰┈➤ “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. Why are we such fools —such tragic fools?”
— — 𝑫𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒆, 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈
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Dale Carnegie
"It is true: we love life not because we are accustomed to life but because we are accustomed to love.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
And even to me, one who likes life, it seems butterflies and soap bubbles and whatever is of their kind among human beings know most about happiness."
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"Human being is something that must be overcome."
On the Passions of Pleasure and PainKitabı okuyor
"It is distinguishing to have many virtues, but it is a hard lot. And many went into the desert and killed themselves because they were weary of being the battle and battlefield of virtues. My brother, are war and battle evil? But this evil is necessary, envy and mistrust and slander among your virtues are necessary.
Look, how each of your virtues is greedy for the highest. It wants your entire spirit, to be its herald; it wants your entire strength in rage, hatred and love.
Each virtue is jealous of the other, and jealousy is a terrible thing. Even virtues can perish of jealousy.
Whoever is ringed by the flame of jealousy in the end will turn his poisonous stinger upon himself, like the scorpion. Oh my brother, have you never seen a virtue slander and stab itself?
Human being is something that must be overcome, and therefore you should love your virtues – for of them you will perish."
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“'The other world' is well hidden from humans, that dehumaned, inhuman world that is a heavenly nothing. And the belly of being does not speak at all to humans, unless as a human."
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