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“No one has had gods so favourable to him that he can promise himself a morrow.”
Thyestes • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.”
Notes from Underground • Fyodor Dostoevski“What is that the inherence of which, will render the body alive? [The soul.] ...Then whatever the soul possesses, to that she comes bearing life? ...And is there an opposite to life? [Death.] Then the soul, as she has been acknowledged, will never receive the opposite of what she brings. ...And what do we call the principle which does not admit of death? [The immortal.] And does the soul admit of death? [No.] Then the soul is immortal? [Yes.]”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato““No one had any reason to be dissatisfied with what he had seen no one, that is, except for the starvation artist, he alone, always.” ”
A Hunger Artist • Franz Kafka“Every living creature is happy when he fulfills his destiny, that is, when he realizes himself, when he is being that which in truth he is. For this reason, Schlegel, inverting the relationship between pleasure and destiny, said, “We have a genius for what we like.” Genius, man’s superlative gift for doing something, always carries a look of supreme pleasure.”
History as a System • Jose Ortega y Gasset