"What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?"

-- Henry Miller

#Enlightenment Quotes #Progress Quotes #Insane Quotes

“Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.”
“A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.”
“Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5.”
“Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.”
“We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.”
“My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.”
“When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker must tire himself to death twelve hours and more, he is cut off from becoming man. Every labor is to have the intent that the man be satisfied.... His labor is nothing taken by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labors only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other.”

Source : "The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner. Cambridge edition, p. 108, 1995.
“If it's worth feeling bad about, it's worthy of amnesia.”

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