The mass-man would never have accepted authority external to himself had not his surroundings violently forced him to do so. As to-day, his surroundings do not so force him, the everlasting mass-man,...
But the man we are now analysing accustoms himself not to appeal from his own to any authority outside him. He is satisfied with himself exactly as he is. Ingenuously, without any need of being vain,...
This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of to-day two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingr...
How is it I have the strength to carry my own weaknesses?
Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.
(About Sartre...)His death does not separate us. My death will not bring us together again. That is how things are. It is in itself splendid that we were able to live our lives in harmony for so long.
In the digital world, nothing truly exist unless it exist in at least two places.
I've told you two things : First, you're much more insignificant than you ever imagined and second, the future is miserable. But you should be happy, because we may live in a universe without purpose...
Life is short and evasive. This shortness and evasiveness of life is not predicated on numeric quantifiers, but embedded in the limitation on humans as mere mortals.
I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes mas...
We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine on. Our deaths will mean nothing to them.
The thing that attracted me about philosophy was that it went straight to essentials. I had never liked fiddling detail; I perceived the general significance of things rather than their singularities,...
We are, for all our polish, of littlestature, and, as human lives,compared with authentic martyrs,of no account.
We shall have thousands of Shatovs to deal with
We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable tide of chaos. Gone is purpose; all that is left is direction. This is the b...
...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.
Someone's got to do some more research, but I would really like to know: when a CBT therapist really gets distressed, who does he go see?
I Think, Therefore I Am ... I Think ...
I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.
Existence is tedious, anyway.
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