"Read from a distant star, the majuscule..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.
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“Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.”
“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”
“The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!”
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