To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
Category Archive: August 24
If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
War itself is the enemy of the human race.
It’s very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.
Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.