Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
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