It is not a way of life that a wise man proposes, but a way around life.
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You say nothing could be further from the truth. I say nothing could be further than truth.
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Sophistry is what reason becomes when it is employed for the purpose of reconciling us to life.
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So much havoc has optimism wrought in this world that pessimism appears not only a legitimate way of looking at things but a moral duty.
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In a fallen world no fear is unwarranted, and hence what the psychologist calls a phobia might more accurately be described as practical intelligence . . . The more things a man has the good sense to flee from, the less he will have to regret.
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The true difference between the compassionate person and the coldhearted one is that the former derives pleasure form the suffering of other while the latter does not.
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Inexcusable and unforgivable — two adjectives that may be applied to every living thing.
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Pessimism is the optimism of disaster — the undying hope of every dreaded outcome.
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It is not common sense but mental confusion that induces us to distinguish between those bent on utterly destroying us and those who have our best interest at heart.
© Christopher Spranger, Green Integer Books, Copenhagen 1998.
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