"Today is bad, and day by day it will get worse - until at last the worse of all arrives"
Down, down further into drugs and hate,Black, black masses I am doomed this is my fate.
He discovers adversaries everywhere, lives in continual conflict and dies with sword in hand
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him." — Sidney Greenberg
Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course?
The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its conciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment
Evolutionary emotions and tribal survival
Spiritual pain is conditional upon knowledge
We are living through the end of one era and the birth of a new one
...This feeling will dominate so decidedly over every other that they will not even think it necessary to speak of it but will silently assume it is the basis of their conversation.
For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
