School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new ...and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my bro...thers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know of no studies so composing as those of the classical scholar. When we have sat down to them, life seems as still and serene... as if it were very far off, and I believe it is not habitually seen from any common platform so truly and unexaggerated as in the light of literature. In serene hours we contemplate the tour of the Greek and Latin authors with more pleasure than the traveler does the fairest scenery of Greece or Italy. Where shall we find a more refined society? That highway down from Homer and Hesiod to Horace and Juvenal is more attractive than the Appian. Reading the classics or conversing with those old Greeks and Latins in their surviving works, is like walking amid the stars and constellations, a high and by way serene to travel. Indeed, the true scholar will be not a little of an astronomer in his habits. Distracting cares will not be allowed to obstruct his field of vision, for the higher regions of literature, like astronomy, are above storm and darkness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger... phallic symbol than a Porsche.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past,... your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and c...omedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We walk along the cliff, and I feel a sudden impulse to push you over, which I promptly do: I acted on impulse, yet I certainly in...tended to push you over, and may even have devised a little ruse to achieve it; yet even then I did not act deliberately, for I did not (stop to) ask myself whether to do it or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I suppose that one of the psychological principles of advertising is to so hammer the name of your product into the mind of the ti...mid buyer that when he is confronted with a brusk demand for an order he can't think of anything else to say, whether he wants it or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »