If someone tells me that there can be had, a better experience than waking up, taking a smoke, and sitting quietly outside listening to the day come awake, I should be suspicious of such a claim I would rather sit on a pumpkin alone in the woods,...

If someone tells me that there can be had, a better experience than waking up, taking a smoke, and sitting quietly outside listening to the day come awake, I should be suspicious of such a claim
I would rather sit on a pumpkin alone in the woods, than on a velvet cushion in the presence of kings.

“We love ourselves to the point of idolatry; but we also intensely dislike ourselves — we find ourselves unutterably boring. Correlated with this distaste for the idolatrously worshipped self, there is in all of us a desire, sometimes latent, sometimes conscious and passionately expressed, to escape from the prison of our individuality, an urge to self-transcendence. It is to this urge that we owe mystical theology, spiritual exercises and yoga — to this, too, that we owe alcoholism and drug addiction.”

— Aldous Huxley 

“Association with other people corrupts our character, especially when one has no character.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche (via niftywords)

“Something that convinces does not have to be true. It is only convincing.”

— Friedrich Nietzshe (via tsumichama)