“I am beyond the Right and the Left, just as I am beyond good and evil.. I am a man dedicated to life, not to formulas.”
— D’Annunzio
— D’Annunzio
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley
― Aldous Huxley
“Most men, the herd, have never tasted solitude. They leave father and mother, but only to crawl to a wife and quietly succumb to new warmth and new ties. They are never alone, they never commune with themselves.”
— Hermann Hesse
— Hermann Hesse
“All these noble ideas about equality and fraternity are lies. They exist to make fools march in line.”
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline
“Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
— Niccolò Machiavelli
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
— Niccolò Machiavelli
"You have already defeated us twice, but we will win the third time and you will not know anything until everything is over."
— Dr. Josef Mengele, last page of his personal diary.
— Dr. Josef Mengele, last page of his personal diary.
"Become who you are. Do what only you can do. Be the master and the sculptor of yourself. "
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"If a man is to be liked, he must really be inferior in point of intellect."
— Schopenhauer
— Schopenhauer
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“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli
― Niccolò Machiavelli
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“I know no better life purpose than that of perishing, pro viribus, in the pursuit of the great and the impossible.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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"I hate equality. It is the lie of the prophets. No people is equal to another. No man is equal to another. I love the exceptional precisely because they are the exception."
— Roman von Ungern Sternberg
— Roman von Ungern Sternberg
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"The wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour."
— Niccolò Machiavelli
— Niccolò Machiavelli
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"Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!"
— Patrick Pearse
— Patrick Pearse
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"We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future." — Patrick Pearse
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“You either become a wolf or get eaten by wolves.”
— Zyzz
— Zyzz
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