Many people would rather die than think.

- Bertrand Russell

Il est plus facile d'écrire un mauvais poème
que d'en comprendre un bon.

- Michel de Montaigne

Poetry, in essence, is a form of cognitive thought,
of knowledge, of philosophy.

- Mikhail Katkov, 1856

anomie

He who seeks to understand everything
risks dying of anger.

- Arab proverb

anomie

There is no document of civilisation that is not also
a document of barbarism.

- Walter Benjamin

anomie

A poet can only warn.

- Wilfred Owen

anomie

The basic metaphysical problem is the question of suicide.

- Albert Camus

anomie

We think and believe only what we want to believe and think.

- Diogenes of Sinope

anomie

Through the skilful use of propaganda, whole peoples can be persuaded
that Heaven is Hell, and vice versa.

- Adolf Hitler

Everything that is said, written and thought today
is increasingly - and dangerously
- irrelevant to life.

- Raoul Vaneigem

anomie

Civilisation makes rottenness so much easier.

- Noël Coward

anomie

Culture is a bridge between the deepest lies
and the shallowest truths.

- Swami Vrhka Baba

anomie

Life is a night in a terrible hotel.

- Saint Teresa of Ávila

anomie

The world of men is fraud and fantasy.

- Rumi

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

- Rudyard Kipling

'Education' I have had enough of & it is such rot.

- T.E. Lawrence

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What I am describing is not really what
you are interested in.

- U.G. Krishnamurti

The world is a mesmerising mess
and humans are mesmerising messes.

- Morrissey

Always look on the bright side of death.

- Monty Python