A Declaration Of War On The Masses

Whatever A Theologian Regards As True Must Be False: There You Have Almost A Criterion Of Truth.

Give Me Today, For Once, The Worst Throw Of Your Dice, Destiny. Today I Transmute Everything Into Gold.

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading The Way. No Stream Is Large And Copious Of Itself, But Becomes Great By Receiving And Leading On So Many Tributary Streams. It Is So, Also, With All Intellectual Greatness, It Is Only A Question Of Someone Indicating The Direction To Be Followed By So Many Affluent; Not Whether He Was Richly Or Poorly Gifted Originally.

In The World Of High Finance The Shilling Of The Idle Rich Man Can Buy More Than That Of The Poor, Industrious Man.

One Should Not Wrongly Reify 'cause' And 'effect,' As The Natural Scientists Do (and Whoever, Like Them, Now 'naturalizes' In His Thinking), According To The Prevailing Mechanical Doltishness Which Makes The Cause Press And Push Until It 'effects' Its End; One Should Use 'cause' And 'effect' Only As Pure Concepts, That Is To Say, As Conventional Fictions For The Purpose Of Designation And Communication-not For Explanation.