If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse. - Max Nordau
It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
- Max Nordau
How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences i… - Max Nordau
How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences i…
Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole commu… - Max Nordau
Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole commu…
The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs. - Max Nordau
The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs.
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. - Max Nordau
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Pe… - Max Nordau
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Pe…
Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists - Max Nordau
Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. - Max Nordau
By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantl… - Max Nordau
By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantl…
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