Bacchus looks after his own.

"Destroy my desires,eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you." -Notes From the Underground

[intj-erotics]

[freetheshit-outofyou]

[alcrego]

Dreamer

[salem-poor-squadron-75]

[eightiesandninetiesanime]

[shuttered-gallery]

"Stranger at the Carnival" by Emile Corsi, 1887

[philosophybits]

“We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims

[reachartwork]

hole in the sky

[philosophybits]

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”

— Voltaire, Epître à l'auteur du livre des Trois imposteurs

[shuttered-gallery]

"The Book of the Dead" by Emile Corsi, 1877

[philosophybits]

“Man did not enter into society to become worse than he was before, nor to have fewer rights than he had before, but to have those rights better secured.”

— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

[philosophybits]

“Everything you’re trying to reach — by taking the long way round — you could have right now, this moment. If you’d only stop thwarting your own attempts. If you’d only let go of the past, entrust the future to Providence, and guide the present toward reverence and justice.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (12.1)

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Sacred Fire by Devinez

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[philosophybits]

“Each combatant is seized with a fierce desire to put down his rivals in every possible way, till he who at last comes out victorious is more proud of having done harm to others than of having done good to himself. This sort of honor, then, is really empty, being nothing.”

— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

[philosophybits]

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, “Schopenhauer as educator”, Untimely Meditations

[philosophybits]

“The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piecemeal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class.”

— Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England

[quotemadness]

With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky