“If I live, I mean to spend the rest of my life working for perpetual peace. I have seen war and faced artillery and know what an outrage it is against simple men.” IfsKnowsMenMeanWarSimplePerpetualOutrageArtillerySimple Man Book:The day's burden and other essays Source: The day's burden and other essays
“Enlightenment means that you're never the same. You move and shift as the quiescent state, in a body or out of it. And since the quiescent state is perpetual and endless ecstasy, therefore you are endless.” MeanStatesBodyMovingEnlightenmentEndlessEcstasyPerpetual Author:Frederick Lenz
“Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.” MeanSpeakLanguageTeacherCarEnlightenmentHollywoodVersionsEnlightenedPerpetual Author:Frederick Lenz
“The contradictions in Renan , his feminine sensibility, coquetry, unavowed egotism, and sudden emotional outbursts, all indicate a soul deliberately using distraction as a means of evasion. The perpetual equivocation bears witness to God in the same way as the twisting and turning of a hunted animal indicates the presence of an unseen hunter.” WayMeanSoulAnimalEmotionalBearsWitnessContradictionFeminineDistractionPerpetualSensibilityUnseenHuntersEgotismHuntedEvasionOutburstCoquetryEmotional Outbursts Book:The Impostor Source: The Impostor
“So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.” MenFirstsWellsMeanDesireCausesMankindDelightPerpetualRestlessInclinationModeratesAcquisitionLive Well Author:Thomas Hobbes