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“"He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections."”
Metamorphosis and Other Stories • Franz Kafka“Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again--- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (---that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind---one loses it when one no longer needs it. [Criticism of Darwin's Origin of Species.]”
Twilight of the Idols • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardor of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ.”
The Karamazov Brothers • Fyodor Dostoevski“Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be made like this?”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill