“The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.” MenWayMindEndsHandsAgeLostImaginationOpinionVirtueSeeingWillingHe ManPerseveranceStupidityOld AgeDiverseFinestPreciseRestlessCautiousConstancyThrifty Book:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.” LongEndsStupidityFolly Book:Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody
“No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more communists, no more proletariat, no more democrats, no more republicans, no more bourgeois, no more aristocrats, no more arms, no more police, no more nations, an end at last to all this stupidity, nothing left, nothing at all, nothing, nothing.” EndsLastsLeftNationsArmsRepublicanMusicianPoliceDemocratStupidityPainterRadicalCommunistAnarchistBourgeoisSculptorsProletariat Author:Louis Aragon