No great discovery has ever been made by the power of reason.

Imagine a Mitt Romney, but different… a Romney who actually was capable of acting like he looks, and was worthy of his looks. Imagine a younger Romney who rouses the nation to a new war, against India, through power of charisma and speech alone.

Chimp in state of nature never jerks off, but in captivity he does, wat does this mean?

What Mount Aetna was to Empedocles—is there something like that to you?

The equivalent of the “meme” in political action is the prank. You really can’t underestimate the power of a good prank…

Schopenhauer refers with contempt to the people who have their “catalogues of monkeys” and think they understand nature. Darwin himself, Nietzsche called him a petty mind, the kind of calculator who likes to collect many small facts and synthesize some clumsy theory.

At such moments of mood where you’re both calm and at least feel free every detail of life becomes interesting, all takes the character of images from a peaceful dream that present themselves in turn and don’t move you one way or another.

It’s clear the Greeks admired the power and freedom of the barbarian far more than the “civilized” way of the slave, and his false intelligence.

You can’t encourage people to strive […] to succeed at World of Warcraft, or at their career as an interior designer, there’s no honor in that. […] Although we live in the most debased of all ages, it’s still possible, as you will see, to break this Babylon and 1/2

America has successfully portioned off its historical population, its rightful citizens, and its tax base, in work camps and dormitories. That is what the modern American “city” is: an economic zone arranged much like a work-camp, or concentration-camp if you want.

Animals walk around in a state of permanence religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception of Man as well.

Hegel said […] copying Heraclitus: those peoples who choose death rather than slavery or submission in a confrontation, that is a people of masters.

If a god showed himself today to you, in a dream, would you have the inner energy and power to honor him and do his bidding in the world?

Do you imagine that men of genius or, let’s say, men of science in history walked around clear-headed, “disenchanted”, reasonable, with the tight-assed attitude of the science cultist and materialist?

It is the injustice but above all the filth, the disgusting suffocation of city life, the vision of life degraded and under distress, that led Buddha to his escape… he said, “the home is a place of filth.”

The defeated male that is turned into a peon and a neutered beast for women and hidden masters is a terrible thing to see.

Throughout history we’ve almost always been outnumbered, and it hasn’t been a problem.

I imagine a network of brothels and gambling-houses around the world. Yes, to ensnare, to compromise, to corrupt, and above all to observe and to know their secrets.

Peoples are nature’s circuitous ways to great specimens and for this reason the peoples that have arisen out of nature must be preserved in their distinct forms. In same way see from all this that aesthetic physique has the most cosmic significance, and it is 1/2

Customs and religious authorities that concern themselves with how you should wipe your ass, brush teeth, how many fingers to insert in anus to achieve such and such “magical-medical” goal, petty legalisms of all kinds […]. All of this smothers genuine religious 1/2