“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom”
Hannah Arendt
“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.”
Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under. … "I love him who does not hold back one drop of spirit for himself, but wants to be entirely the spirit of his virtue: thus he strides over the bridge as spirit.
Nietzche
When the Power of Love Overcomes the Love of Power the World Will Know Peace
Jimi Hendrix
Opening &
Closing
The petals
Of
boundary
Lotus of
Illusion
meno_
Hell is chalkfull of the best intensions.
Then who needs hell?
Alfred e. meno_
‘The Marxists have only changed the world in various ways. The point, however, is to interpret it.’ - Philosopher
“Politics of experience, or experience of politics that is the question”
adalbert von meno
“In the meantime, humans have only ever changed the world in different ways; the important thing is to save it.”
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.’ "
Niels Bohr
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
(Regardless of what he thinks)
Sartre
Life moves at the speed of life.
Me.
“Stop writing nonsense nobody can understand you wacko.”
- polishyouthsipgotbanned (professor of analytics of the linguistic philosophy and ordinary language philosophy program)
“… then I learned that all moral judgments are ‘value judgments,’ that all value judgments are subjective, and that none can be proved to be either ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’ I even read somewhere that the Chief Justice of the United States had written that the American Constitution expressed nothing more than collective value judgments. Believe it or not, I figured out for myself–what apparently the Chief Justice couldn’t figure out for himself–that if the rationality of one value judgment was zero, multiplying it by millions would not make it one whit more rational. Nor is there any ‘reason’ to obey the law for anyone, like myself, who has the boldness and daring–the strength of character–to throw off its shackles…I discovered that to become truly free, truly unfettered, I had to become truly uninhibited. And I quickly discovered that the greatest obstacle to my freedom, the greatest block and limitation to it, consists in the insupportable ‘value judgment’ that I was bound to respect the rights of others. I asked myself, who were these ‘others?’ Other human beings, with human rights? Why is it more wrong to kill a human animal than any other animal, a pig or a sheep or a steer? Is your life more than a hog’s life to a hog? Why should I be willing to sacrifice my pleasure more for the one than for the other? Surely, you would not, in this age of scientific enlightenment, declare that God or nature has marked some pleasures as ‘moral’ or ‘good’ and others as ‘immoral’ or ‘bad’? In any case, let me assure you, my dear young lady, that there is absolutely no comparison between the pleasure that I might take in eating ham and the pleasure I anticipate in raping and murdering you. That is the honest conclusion to which my education has led me–after the most conscientious examination of my spontaneous and uninhibited self” - Theodore Bundy
(cited in Louis P. Pojman, Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong, 3rd edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson, 1999), 31-32.)
Y’all didn’t know Ted went that hard, didjoo? Tryna tell u.
hold up. Wait a minute. Something ain’t right.
That last part is a quote, I swear to god it is but I can’t remember… wanna say de sade?
I mean clearly we know Ted wouldn’t say that ‘rape and murder you’ bit in a college paper, so it has to be a quote.
Somebody Google it and get back to me.
"“when you’ve got moxie, you need the clothes to match”
me no
“When and why do we attribute a person’s behavior to brain disease, and when and why do we not do so? Briefly, the answer is that we often attribute bad behavior to disease (to excuse the agent); never attribute good behavior to disease (lest we deprive the agent of credit); and typically attribute good behavior to free will and insist bad behavior called mental illness is a “no fault” act of nature.” - Stephen Szasz
Lol
Live your life in such a way that it serves always the development and perfection of your inner resources. Know that you cannot lose what you have not truly acquired. A lot of people go through a lot of angst and grief trying to work out why they’re stuck with themselves, in their own small perspective. “How is it that all these other people get to change without me? Why can’t I change? Why can’t I be a better person?” They’re looking for something else; they’re looking for an experience which they’re aware exists, but can’t find, or maybe can find but can’t believe. It’s the pitiable Ego that keeps us isolated from each other in spite of our inherent sympathy for others; the pitiable Ego that will never find God. The Ego is the greatest illusion, the greatest delusion. The Ego makes you miserable, you see, because it’s not part of the greater reality. It’s not in touch with anything other than itself.
Remember that the process of growth isn’t an experience, but an activity. If you want to grow you must do it with every other thing you do; competence compounds across all areas of life. If you want to do well at something you have to do it with your work and your play, your politics and your religion, your work and your rest. And while you are doing it you must never stop. The only way you can grow is by growing, and the only thing that can make you grow is growth itself.
“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It’s essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don’t. The reality isn’t important: what’s important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.” - Ted Chiang
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“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”
― K.L. Toth
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The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.
John Locke[/b]
“Every man for himself and God for all”
Deodorant Dostoevsky
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