Repair Workshop and Gas Station (1948) of Borgward in Bremen, Germany, by Rudolf Lodders

Raffaella Carrà (1943-2021)

“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

The Des Moines Register, Iowa, July 13, 1930

Saint Sebastian being cured by Saint Irene (detail, ca.1625) Nicolas Regnier

Weekend Home (1927) built for himself in Reinbek, Germany, by Gottfried Schramm. Photo by Ernst Scheel.

Jeremy Thomas - Longmont, United States

“Buddha says: ‘Do not flatter your benefactor!’ Repeat this saying in a Christian church and it will clear the air of everything Christian.”

—The Gay Science, §142 (edited).