June 2010
34 posts
“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich...”
– E. O. Wilson (via colporteur) (via shatteredstarshine) (via booklover)
“The Misconception: Your opinions are the result of years of rational, objective...”
– Confirmation Bias « You Are Not So Smart (via kaching) (via nebachanezar)
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
– Albert Camus (via quote-book) (via lalumacahatrecorna) (via fuckyeahzenmind) (via signa) (via binnyyy) (via marywachsmann) (via nebachanezar)
“True to oneself….which self?”
– Katherine Mansfield (via thesecondperson) (via katherinemansfieldproject) (via awritersruminations)
Fuck Yeah Existentialism: Eternal Return →
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that every thing recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence it self recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify? Putting it negatively, the myth of…
“Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their...”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game
[Act One: City of the Damned]
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“Be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become...”
– Ajahn Chan (via beyondthemultiverse) (via sairaluvsu)
“There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.”
– Jeanette Winterson (Submitted by: theloverstraces) (via quote-book)
walkwhilereading:
Random Passage, Random Page, Random Book off the Shelf.
“And I submit that this is what the real, no-shit value of your liberal arts education is suppose to be about: How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone, day...
“Have you watched your thinking? I watched that car go by, it was a blue car. Can...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti (from Whiskey River) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via theplumtree)
“You have given me the highest, completest proof of love that ever one human...”
– Robert Browning (via quote-book)
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of...”
– Shirley Jackson (via funeral) (via suzywire) (via booklover)
“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis.”
– William Styron (via wordpainting)
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via poisonedsunshine) (via nebachanezar)
What a thing we have created. What an... →
mianoti:
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L’Étranger: Do you not know that there comes a... →
fuckyeahexistentialism:
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when everyone has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself me mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal...
“… how poor in invention men are! They always think one commits suicide for a...”
– Albert Camus, The Fall (via invisiblestories)
