Authentic self Quote by Michael Beckwith

“Suppose a human being has thus put his ear, as it were, to the heart chamber of the world will and felt the roaring…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God…

— Albert Einstein

“For it is not only lethargy alone which causes human relationships to repeat themselves in the same old way with such unspeakable monotony in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Tragic art is the organization of a small portion of an otherwise meaningless world that gives purpose to an individual existence.”

— Joshua Foa Dienstag

“No individual existence can be traced further than the moment of conception, which determined that what was to be born would be this person…

— Nick Joaquín

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In living things, nature springs an ontological surprise in which the world-accident of terrestrial conditions brings to light an entirely new possibility of being:…

— Hans Jonas

“There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The normal process of life contains moments as bad as any of those which insane melancholy is filled with, moments in which radical evil…

— Thomas Ligotti

“It is said that humanity has evolved one-sidedly, growing in technical power without any comparable growth in moral integrity, or, as some would prefer…

— Alan W. Watts

A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

“But he will fear least to become nothing in death who has recognized that he is already nothing now, and who consequently no longer…

— Arthur Schopenhauer