“The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.” MenHumansTodayInterestHuman BeingsBusinessExistenceBloodExampleDevelopmentMembersDiseasePressureCompetitionSpeciesManagersMore TimeNeurosisBarbarismGood ExamplesBlood PressureAtrophyHigh Blood PressureUlcersGastric Author:Konrad Lorenz
“Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.” BelieveHeartFactsVoiceExistenceBloodBrotherProveBelieve In GodSheltered Lives Author:Walter Kaufmann
“As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron.” MenHumansFactsProblemOrderIndividualSocialExistenceBloodHe ManRedConcernedImportanceSacredTerrorHuman LifeRevolutionaryOppositionIronVegetarianSovietHistoricSanctionsSocial OrderSacrednessQuaker Author:Leon Trotsky
“He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else.” HumansHeartPleasureExistenceBloodOne DayAll ThingsLongingCeaseHatefulParasitesTransitory Book:Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics) Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that this entailed. Even though we have always been present in this created universe, we now became flesh and blood. It would be like this bird (a jay), whose nature it is to fly, choosing to only walk and remain grounded. He doesn't stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly.” HumansDoeWould BeUniverseThreeWalksExistenceBloodSonBirdEmbraceFleshLimitationSpokesGroundedHuman ExistenceFlesh And Blood Author:William P. Young
“When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.” MenWaySoulBodyTurnsLostSleepExistenceBloodCenturyIllusionOvercomingSeekingDeeperAwakeStreamsRestlessAwakenedBetter WaysRefined Author:Flann O'Brien
“You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how it jerked its wings before dying, and left a spot of blood on the floor after it was removed. But who among you was first to notice the negative bird it left in the window? Who first saw the shadow that the bird left behind, the shadow that drew blood from any finger that dared to trace it, the shadow that was better proof of the bird's existence than the bird ever was?” FirstsRememberLeftBehindsExistenceSawsBloodDyingBirdShadowNegativeWindowWingsFingersProofSpotsRemember WhenLeft Behind Book:Everything Is Illuminated Source: Everything Is Illuminated