It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded...
It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found.
It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough , it is your God-given right to have it...I was a ra...
Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency,
Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul. He soon discovered, however...
Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day counterparts.
In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers.
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In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche introduced the concept of the Übermensch: an exemplary, transcendent figure who is the polar opposite of the last man or men without chests. The Übermensch is virt...
A lot of us are like that—I’m like that, Ed Abbey was like that, and it sounds like this McCandless kid was like that: We like companionship, see, but we can’t stand to be around people for very long....
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
Will be thoroughly cleansed of Satan’s minions—apostates,
The romantic waste places of the world.
The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.
No more than 20 percent of rapes are reported to the police, a statistic that defies comprehension until one looks closely at how sexual-assault cases are adjudicated in the United States.
My life was falling apart. But somehow I stuck it out.
McCandless was stirred by the austerity of the landscape, by its saline beauty. The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it, in sere geology and clean slant of l...
Jack London es el Rey Alexander Supertramp Mayo 1992 [Inscripción
For a few minutes the roof of the bus remains visible among the stunted trees, a tiny white gleam in a wild green sea, growing smaller and smaller, and then it’s gone.