
“The Intellect constitutes the raison d’être of the human condition.”
[2014, In the Face of the Absolute, World Wisdom, 27, 978-1-936597-41-3]
Human being, Intellect
Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 2, “Preparations for Departure” (p. 33)
“The Intellect constitutes the raison d’être of the human condition.”
[2014, In the Face of the Absolute, World Wisdom, 27, 978-1-936597-41-3]
Human being, Intellect
Part of the speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology, On the subject of humane slaughter (Summer 2010)
Context: Exactly what is your definition of humane? Besides psychological and physical abuse, torture, dismemberment and murder, what else do you think happens to animals inside of a slaughterhouse? Do you think they get belly rubs and tushy slaps? And if you think there is such a thing as humane slaughter. I'm curious, do you also think there is such a thing as humane rape? Humane child molestation? Humane slavery? How about a humane holocaust? In fact, what is your definition of a holocaust? Is it a massacre of human beings, or a massacre of innocent beings?
“Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly”
Source: Running Hot
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.
Almansor: A Tragedy (1823), as translated in True Religion (2003) by Graham Ward, p. 142
Variant translations:
Wherever books are burned, men in the end will also burn.
Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people.
Where they burn books, they will also burn people.
It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people.
Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings.
Where they burn books, they also burn people.
Them that begin by burning books, end by burning men.
“Every shy person is a potential sex offender.”
"Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues" - Published by Companhia das Letras, 1992 ISBN 8571646678, 9788571646674