'If you want to improve human beings, then make them happy; but if you want to make them happy, then go to the source of all happiness, all pleasures - to the senses' (Ludwig Feuerbach)
'Ik geloof soms dat de koppigheid waarmee mensen aan tradities vasthouden, voldoende is om iedere hoop op te geven dat de mensheid door rationele maatregelen gelukkiger zal worden' (Alfred in W.F. Hermans, Nooit meer slapen)
'Many peacocks hide their peacock tails - and call that their pride' (Nietzsche)
'Time has gathered us here by coincidence' (I am Kloot)
'Even nostalgia is not what it used to be' (Simone Signoret)
'That marvellous landscape of my dream/ which no eye knows, nor ever will/ at moments, wide awake, I seem/ to grasp, and it excites me still// (...) I woke; my mind was bright with flame;/ I saw the cheap and sordid hole/ I live in, and my cares all came/ burrowing back into my soul.'// (Baudelaire, Parisian Dream)
'In every desire for knowledge there is a drop of cruelty' (Nietzsche)
'la vie n'est pas un madrigal' (Le livre d'or de la femme)
'when love is tranquil, easy, lawful and without dangers, is it really love?' (Guy de Maupassant)
'Human nature is able to endure only very little reality' (T.S. Eliot)
'Ach, ich bin des Treibens muede/ Was soll all der Schmerz und Lust? Suesser Friede,/ Komm, ach komm in meine Brust!' (Goethe, Wanders Nachtlied)
'He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain' (Emerson)
'Joyless. -- A single person is enough to create constant discouragement and cloudy skies for a whole household, and it is a miracle if... there is not one person like that. Happiness is not nearly so contagious a disease. Why?' (Nietzsche)
'Fate works most for woe/ With Folly's fairest show' (Sophocles)
'Tears are for petty sorrows!' (Schiller)
'Too bad. We're in Paradise' (Baudrillard)
'How far are we from the moment that artistic powers and practical wisdom will join scientific reflection?' (Nietzsche)
'Nothing is more frightening than imagination without taste' (Goethe)
'Tolerance should actually be a passing disposition: it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.' (Goethe)
'Although we may not know it, we have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State.' (Thomas Szasz)
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