"The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men."

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Source : Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.6, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

Georg Brandes

#Men Quotes #Culture Quotes #Burden Quotes

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”

Source : "The Camelia-lady".
“It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.”
“Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.324
“I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!”

Source : "Luke Wilson's Over Being 'America's Boyfriend'" by Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. October 10, 2011.
“Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable.”
“I try to capture reality, nothing else.”
“It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psychology, and that the rest should be left to other professions.”

Source : Hans Haacke (2016). “Working Conditions: The Writings of Hans Haacke”, p.15, MIT Press
“What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.”

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