"The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that however it finds you, it will find you under very weird circumstances. To live that kind of life . . . - Thomas Pynchon
Image is everything is only half true:
In a world without investigative journalism, image is everything.
it is probable that more humans exist in the past than in the future. but it is more probable that where humans cease to exist they begin to be something else entirely
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.
the priests: they choose a life of renunciation and claim to know better than us how to live.
If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
-Elbert Hubbard
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
-Ivan Illich
I contradict myself? Well, good thing! I contradict myself I own: I am able to take a lot!
Why is it we can see the foolishness of the blind leading the blind, and yet miss the same pitiful futility of the sane leading the sane?
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The Law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission - its only purpose is to protect exploitation. - Peter Kropotkin
IF Chaos is order and order is Chaos is there chaos and order or just existence without definition
To speak of right and wrong per se makes no sense at all. No act of violence, rape, exploitation, destruction, is intrinsically unjust, since life itself is violent, rapacious, exploitative, and destructive, and cannot be conceived otherwise.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
when you act like someone is your enemy, they'll soon start playing to the role as they feel threatened.
Philosophy is the systematic abuse of a terminology specifically designed for that purpose
It has been said that nothing is impossible; yet there are many people doing nothing every day.
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