Shocking Sayings
73 sayings found from the Modern era
It is difficult to believe that the American and British forces would surrender unconditionally.
It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Africa proper has no history as it is not a historical continent and has nothing to show in the way of development.
To be a Christian is the most terrible of all things, if one really means it.
In order to live a life that is truly worth living, one must at some point become thoroughly disgusted with it.
Life has no meaning a priori. It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing other than the meaning you choose.
The most marvelous thing about the world is that it is a world of possibility; and the most wondrous fact about man is that he is a possibility.
The greatest evil is not radical, but rather is without roots. It is the evil of thoughtlessness.
My mind is not like a machine, but like a hand. Its job is to make things, not to analyze them.
Always to be judged, and to be judged without the possibility of a defense, that is the plight of the innocent.
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn carry the hybrid trait (Aa), the other half, however, receive the parental traits A and a in equal amounts.
The atrophy of individual culture through the hypertrophy of objective culture is one reason for the bitter hatred which the preachers of the most extreme individualism, above all Nietzsche, harbour against the metropolis.