The task of painting the picture of life, often as it has been attempted by poets and philosophers, is nevertheless irrational. Even in the hands of the greatest artist-thinkers, pictures and miniatures of one life only – their own – have come into being, and indeed no other result is possible.
— Friedrich Nietzsche in Human, All Too Human, Part Two, Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions
— Friedrich Nietzsche in Human, All Too Human, Part Two, Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions
The aspiration to ‘save’ the world is the morbid phenomenon of a people’s youth…The more we are dispossessed, the more intense our appetites and our illusions become.
- Emil Cioran
- Emil Cioran