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“Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.”

Thinking Love Mind Wells Self Loses Love Is Destruction Ancient Rational Insanity Greek Delusion Self Destruction Losing Yourself Ancient Greek

Book:The Women's Room

Source: The Women's Room

“The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.”

“The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.”

World Evil Growth Wealth Destruction Ancient Prime Preference Outstanding Medieval Impediments Liquidity

Book:The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

“They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they clairvoyantly saw were going to be born after the destruction of Atlantis”

Wanted Born Practice Saws Meditation Civilization Protect Destruction Ancient Preserves Mystical Meditation Practice Ancient Egypt Atlantis Knowledge Gained

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“I mean, even in terms of the Marvel universe, this [Ancient One character] is going on a side street into a major piazza that Marvel hasn't even been to before, because it's all about creation and not so much about destruction and forestalling destruction, it's about your mind.”

Mind Mean Character Universe Sides Term Streets Creation Majors Destruction Ancient

Author:Tilda Swinton

“I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.”

Fall Study Seeing Destruction Ancient Seeds Empires Sowing Rise And Fall Ancient History Sowing Seeds

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished from the ruins of former continents, from the dissolution of rocks, or the destruction of animal or vegetable bodies, similar, at least in some respects, to those that now occupy the surface of the earth.”

Body Earth Science Animal Rocks Materials Destruction Ancient Surface Ruins Former Primaries Vegetables Continents Dissolution

Book:Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth

Source: Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth

“As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient times the two antagonistic streams, which one finds throughout in the estimates of dream life, were already noticeable. They distinguished between true and valuable dreams, sent to the dreamer to warn him or to foretell the future, and vain, fraudulent, and empty dreams, the object of which was to misguide or lead him to destruction.”

Knows Mind Two Dream Inspiration Objects Divine Products Empty Destruction Ancient Valuable Vain Streams Dreamer Distinguished Ancient Times Divine Inspiration

Author:Sigmund Freud

“We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism.”

Culture Victory Destruction Ancient Socialism Awful Triumph Rome Propositions Imperialism Cemetery Desolation Ancient Rome Degeneration Depopulation

Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in human history , the only way of salvation is the ancient Hindu way. Here we have the attitude and spirit that can make it possible for the human race to grow together in to a single family.”

“How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!”

Done Simple Imagine Equal Destruction Ancient British Bombs Imagine That Monument Havoc

Author:Osbert Sitwell

“The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.”

War Modern Destruction Ancient Agency Fearful Immense Great War Ruthlessness Modern War

Book:Churchill: The Power of Words

Source: Churchill: The Power of Words