Source: The House of Hades
“Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book III, Ch. 13
Attributed
Variant: Of all the infirmities we have, 'tis the most savage to despise our being. (Charles Cotton translation)
Amor servo de l'oro, è il maggior mostro,
Et il più abominabile, e il più sozzo,
Che produca la terra, o 'l mar frà l'onde.
Act II, scene i.
Aminta (1573)
“Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.”
Guillermo del Toro (1964) Mexican film director
Source: The Monsters Of Hellboy II
Silvia Colloca (1977) Singer, actress, author and TV cooking personality
An Interview with Dracula and his Brides (2004)
“And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.”
Alberto Moravia book The Woman of Rome
Source: The Woman of Rome
“The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.”
Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym
Source: A Perfect Blood
Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 315.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 131
Context: Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2019, October, Statement on the Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
“We're all monsters," said Daisy with enthusiasm. "It's the Age of Monsters.”
Paul Bowles book Let It Come Down
Source: Let It Come Down (1952), p. 238
