"The “Will to Power” has nothing to do with tyranny — it is opposed alike to the tyranny of the autocrat and the tyranny of the majority."

"His pride, his timidity and sensitiveness made of Flaubert a shy, lonely, grumpy misanthrope."

"Now, this October you will turn a hundred, harrowing friend. May I speak to you ? I’m alone..."

"The experience of the Middle Passage is not unlike awakening to find that one is alone on a pitching ship, with no port in sight. "

Sandro, who was a clever boy and had taken a fancy to painting, turned completely to the art of design and decided to devote himself to it.

"The time of which we have knowledge is artificial, machine-made time."

"Most of us are so preoccupied with the noise, .. the cacophony of the modern world that we have no energy left for constructive living."

[Documentary]

"The rebel function is necessary as the life-blood of culture, as the very roots of civilization."

"The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real."

"In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours."

"The man-moulders of the new age will be armed with the powers of an omnicompetent state and an irresistible scientific technique."

"What is television ? What kinds of conversations does it permit ? What are the intellectual tendencies it encourages ?"

"We are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it."

"The capacity for discerning the essential truth, in fact, is as rare among men as it is common among crows, bullfrogs and mackerel."

"In Greek mythology, Sleep and Death, Hypnos and Thanatos, are twin brothers."

"The bigger the crowd the more negligible the individual becomes."

"There are many who believe that humans are sheep; there are others who believe that humans are wolves."

"The truly great writers are those who have a feel for the subterranean. .. The great novelists are the true psychologists."

"We have reached a point in history where man has become his own most dangerous enemy."

"Thus, little by little, the Bachelor built his own prison. He suffered from it. He felt he was entirely imprisoned within himself..."

"AN OLD MAN named Chunglang, which means ‘Master Rock’, owned a small farm in the mountains."

"There was once a wild goose. In the autumn, about the time for migration, it became aware of some tame geese."

"Zarathustra has gone a long way on the path of solitude. He has attended the school of suffering."