There Is No Doubt; Even A Rejection

There Is But One Way Left To Save A Classic; To Give Up Revering Him And Use Him For Our Own Salvation.

This Fighting-shy Of Every Obligation Partly Explains The Phenomenon, Half Ridiculous, Half Disgraceful, Of The Setting-up In Our Days Of The Platform Of "youth" As Youth. ... In Comic Fashion People Call Themselves "young," Because They Have Heard That Youth Has More Rights Than Obligations, Since It Can Put Off The Fulfilment Of These Latter To The Greek Kalends Of Maturity. ...[t]he Astounding Thing At Present Is That These Take It As An Effective Right Precisely In Order To Claim For Themselves All Those Other Rights Which Only Belong To The Man Who Has Already Done Something.

By Speaking, By Thinking, We Undertake To Clarify Things, And That Forces Us To Exacerbate Them, Dislocate Them, Schematize Them. Every Concept Is In Itself An Exaggeration.

A Fascinating Mystery Of Nature Is Manifested In The Universal Fact Of Hunting: The Inexorable Hierarchy Among Living Beings. Every Animal Is In A Relationship Of Superiority Or Inferiority With Regard To Every Other. Strict Equality Is Exceedingly Improbable And Anomalous.

To Be Surprised, To Wonder, Is To Begin To Understand. This Is The Sport, The Luxury, Special To The Intellectual Man.