Every moment an epiphany arrives, and cleaves the mountain asunder.
Every age had its losses, they said, even youth, which lost first childhood, then youth too. And all first things were vivid, including losses. Just keep learning, the old woman said.
Enough is as good as a feast. And it’s when everyone is equal that your kids are safest.
Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back
Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.
Consciousness is the hard problem.
Charlotte poured a stiff Irish coffee for herself, wanting both stimulation and sedation. It didn’t work, in fact it backfired, making her antsy but confused. An anti-Irish coffee, must be an English...
But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.
But it is an orchestra, I say. It’s an imitation orchestra—an orchestrion, an orchestrina—whatever you call it, it does a terrible job! All you’ve done is turn a sublime group achievement, a human act...
Because when the crash comes, the government needs to nationalize the banks. No more bailing them out and forcing taxpayers to foot the bill. You
Beauty is the promise of happiness. And the only happiness is action.
Anyway that’s a large part of what economics is—peo-ple arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven’t just made the nu...
And with our work, John continued, we are carving out a new social order and the next step in the human story—i.e., the latest variant in primate dominance dynamics.
And this is a very great gift; this, in the end, is what we think love gives, which is to say meaning. Because there is no very obvious meaning to be found in the universe, as far as we can tell. But...
Always they argued. Neither conceded anything, no compromises were made, nothing was ever accomplished. They argued using the same words to mean different things, and scarcely even spoke to one anothe...
A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe. —Le
The party was a hierarchy; you started at the bottom and moved up one step at a time—school board, city council, state assembly—and then if you had demonstrated lockstep team loyalty, the powers at th...
She keeps a shrine to Sol Invictus in her room, performs the pratahsamdhya ceremony, the salute to the sun, every morning
Omnipresent sublime,
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