Emilebenoit

Art cannot compete with entertainment in the same manner that love cannot compete with sex.

Emile Benoit, - Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man, in Art and Literature

There is a rather morbid sense of superiority and arrogance that the living seem to feel toward the dead, almost as if those now deceased had been outlived.

Emile Benoit, - Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man, in Life and Death

The living are always right, but the dead have all the answers.

Emile Benoit, - Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man, in Life and Death

The temptation to delude oneself is sometimes too provocative to bear alone, so a man calls for his friends to join him.

Emile Benoit, - Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man, in Happiness and Misery

The fool who believes there would be little lost to humanity if a few imbeciles were subtracted does not conceive of the possibility that he is one of them

Emile Benoit, - Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance