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Grendel's Laundry List: Readings
“I am not a Marxist.”
Karl Marx
“For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
"My enemies have been so successful in portraying me as a poet and a visionary that I must put out something commercial without delay.”
Nikola Tesla
“Neither accusation nor defense is among the tasks of the poet.”
Pablo Neruda
“The artist makes art not to save humankind but to save himself. Every benevolent remark by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.”
Camille Paglia
“The just, like sandalwood, perfume the ax that strikes them.”
John L’Heureux
“Nothing is more wretched than a man who traverses everything in a round, and pries into the things beneath the earth, as the poet says, and seeks by conjecture what is in the minds of his neighbors, without perceiving that it is sufficient to attend to the daemon within him, and to reverence it sincerely. And reverence of the daemon consists in keeping it pure from passion and thoughtlessness, and dissatisfaction with what comes from gods and men.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“A man has many skins in himself, covering the depths of his heart. Man knows so many things; he does not know himself. Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, just like an ox’s or a bear’s, so thick and hard, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.”
Meister Eckhart
“To follow God’s will in the sense of true surrender of egoism is best done if there is no concept of God. I truly follow God’s will if I forget about God.”
Erich Fromm, Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis
“Perfection is a kind of hatred.”
Dr. Omed | 
