The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Quote by Henry Miller

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I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world....

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world....

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to...

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to...

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of...

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of...

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all...

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all...

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will...

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will...

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems...

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems...

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything...

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything...

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it...

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it...

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American...

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American...

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were...

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were...

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. Whatever there be of progress in...

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. Whatever there be of progress in...

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is...

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is...

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing...

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing...

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally...

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally...

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of...

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of...

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by,...

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by,...