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“I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.”

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A renowned Russian novelist and a pioneer of psychological novels. His works deeply reveal the complexity of human nature and the injustice of society, having a profound impact on literature worldwide. more

“Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.”

Men Made Said Blood Crime He Man Despair Asking Responsible Bones Criminals Flesh Commit Innocent Ran Consent Robbing

Book:The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man

Source: The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man

“The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.”

Humans Light Universe Goal Human Beings Moral Honesty Approach Intellectual Worldview Hegemony Intellectual Honesty

Author:Peter Wessel Zapffe

“Personally, I'm afraid of suffering and afraid of dying. I'm also afraid of witnessing the suffering and death of those who are close to me. And no doubt I project these fears on those around me and those to come, which makes it impossible for me to understand why everyone isn't an antinatalist, just as I have to assume pronatalists can't understand why everyone isn't like them.”

Suffering Doubt Impossible Dying Projects Assuming No Doubt Suffering And Death

Author:Thomas Ligotti

“I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.”

Matter Position Illusion Misunderstood

Book:The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys

Source: The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys

“Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.”

Men Animal Consciousness Salvation Plant Kingdoms Compromise Diminish Insects Supremacy

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world.”

Ifs Men World Proud Fellows Burden Arrogant Dependence Nuisance

Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“Wipe your glosses with what you know.”

Knows Wipe Gloss

Book:Finnegans Wake

Source: Finnegans Wake

“Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.”

Ifs World May Long Has Beens Made Made It Long Ago Quarrels

Book:Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life

Source: Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life

“Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.”

Misery

Author:Laozi

“Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.”

Mind Moral Ideals Pressure Regard Independent Autonomy

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

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