Quotes About Predicated

Superstition and religion tell me that God responds to me. God is powerful, to be sure, but I am the real center of the universe, because God's actions are predicated upon mine. Religion and superstition say that I can make God dance by being good, and that by being bad I can force him from the floor.

One 'is' a genius only in the sense that one 'is' a syphilitic, in the sense that 'one' is violently problematized by a ferocious exteriority. One returns to the subject of which genius has been predicated to find it charred and devastated beyond recognition.