Many people would rather die than think.

Bertrand Russell

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

It is easier to write a bad poem
than to appreciate a good one.

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

Man marks the Earth with Ruin.

Byron, Childe Harold

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