decadence

is anything that was weakening or that represented weak morality... Christianity, democracy, socialism, and feminism.

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

is not able to be escaped by opposing it. On the contrary, the philosophers and moralist who oppose decadence become its most powerful promoters.

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralist to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will... and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence. Friedrich Nietzsche

is nothing other than a necessary fight with the instincts, and as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

To have to fight the instincts that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct. Friedrich Nietzsche

is hidden by the glossy surface of our civilization.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.Simone Weil

, in earnest, gives life force as nothing else does. It makes one alert as nothing else does.

. . . of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant. Yukio Mishima

is used as a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. (Ernest Hemingway)

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