Alish Niftaliyev
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"Heightened awareness, excitement, ecstasy – everything that distinguishes prophets, poets, martyrs to an idea, from ordinary people is hostile to man's animal side – I mean, his physical health. I repeat: if you want to be healthy and normal, go and join the herd."
"But how do you know that men of genius, in whom the whole world puts its faith, haven't seen ghosts too? Nowadays scientists say genius is akin to madness. My friend, only the mediocre, the common herd are healthy and normal. Thoughts about an age of neurosis, over- work, degeneracy and so on can seriously worry only those for whom the purpose of life lies in the present - that is, the common herd."
"Now he framed the question differently: how could one remove the need for prostitutes? To achieve this, the men who bought and murdered these women should be made to realize the whole immorality of their role as slave-owners and be duly horrified. It was the men who had to be saved."
"Two robbers cut a beggar's throat in a forest. They start sharing out his clothes and find a piece of bacon in his bag. "That's good," one of them says. "Let's eat it." "Have you gone crazy?" the other asks, horrified. "Have you forgotten today's Wednesday, a fast day?" So they left it. Two men cut someone's throat and then emerge from the forest convinced they are devout Christians! Those two are the same; they buy women and go around thinking what fine artists and scholars they are.."
