random rants

“It must have been law that developed in man the sense of just and unjust, right and wrong. Our readers may judge of this explanation for themselves. They know that law has merely utilized the social feelings of man, to slip in, among the moral precepts he accepts, various mandates useful to an exploiting minority, to which his nature refuses obedience. Law has perverted the feeling of justice instead of developing it.”

“When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.”

“Life should go like the giant’s walk, pounding over the earth. No holding back, no indecision, no explanation, no reasoning. It just appears–decisively.

“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”

“It is so hard to forget what it is worse than useless to remember!… I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.”

“Socrates drove all his contemporaries out of substantiality as if naked from a shipwreck, undetermined actuality, envisioned actuality in the distance, touched it, but did not take possession of it.”