Apollyon appears out of nowhere to remove the head of Christianity – The Pilgrim’s Progress c. 1850 edition “To hell with everything—if these words have been uttered only once, coldly, with full awareness of what they mean, history is justified and, with it, all of us.” – Emil Cioran To everything be it a season,

“At what precise moment does an individual cease to be the person he—and everyone else—believes himself to be? Answer: at the moment when an individual becomes conscious that he has been trapped in a paradox of identity and there is no way out for him as long as he believes himself to be something he

“May we learn more & more how to see what is necessary in things as what is beautiful in them; therefore let us be of the kind who makes all things perfectly splendid; Amor fati: let that be our love from now on!” – In spirit of Friedrich Nietzsche & Flora Wingrave Love makes all

Nymphs and Satyr (1873) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) “What pleasure appears in incarnate clarity in the dance of the satyrs, a chorus of natural beings who live ineradicably, as it were, behind all civilization and remain eternally the same, despite the changes of generations and of the history of nations.”– Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of

“From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subject to violence, and the vicious still lay claim to it…. These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” – Jesus ben Joseph, Gospel of Matthew 11:12 & 15:8—Here are the fundamental reasons1 as

“From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subject to violence, and the vicious still lay claim to it…. These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” – Jesus ben Joseph, Gospel of Matthew 11:12 & 15:8—Here are the fundamental reasons1 as