I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced a history of atheism, The Anatomy of Negation, which has been honored by international dislike. Need… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
“Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
“But to such a man as Schopenhauer,—one who considered five sixths of the population to be knaves or blockheads, and who had thought out… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea. — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all. — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm. — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
I think our lives are surely but the dreams Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
“To say that he hated it would be unjust, for, like most sensible people, he held hatred to be an elixir far too precious… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
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