Laura Huang
@laurah
Laura Huang
@laurah
there is one path that drives for the production of a supreme specimen. It is the path that governs higher life; survival and reproduction are only side effects of this path. Life is at most basic, struggle for ownership of space.
when you look at life of true nomads who are always on the move and in open space, they never engage in the kind of depressive introspection and questioning of life that you only see in settled and civilized peoples.
I could say leisure is the source of all great things. The preservation of life is tedious; freedom from its demands is needed for all high science, art, and literature as well, and also all beautiful living, all adventures, all development of your body to the heights of beauty.
Usually a family is the end of a man. This can be both good and bad. But the necessities of caring for a family, and the emotional demands, usually blind him to anything higher. In case you do have a family, have it because you have great love and lust for a woman—and I would recommend the same for women, abandonment to such instinct, if you are lu
... See more“Now that painting has gone up so many blind alleys,” Lagerfeld continues, “I feel that photography is the art that best expresses our age. I am afraid that painting is a finished form, like opera. Photography must be protected from becoming too ‘official.’ It must remain a living art.” Painting certainly is, in its more traditional forms, beginnin
... See moreThere are women who were great scientists, but, like women who were great chess players, or poets, they are probably spiritual lesbians.
cultures become ugly and petty because financial interest overrode eugenics in marriage—
No great discovery has ever been made by the power of reason. Reason is a means of communicating, imperfectly, some discoveries to others, and in the case of the sciences, a method of trying to render this communication certain and precise. But no one ever made a discovery through syllogisms, through reason, through this makeshift form of transmiss
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