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“The children laughing without knowing why - isn't that beautiful?”
“What else is there to do?”
“The existentialist, on the contrary, finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. There can no...”
“I say, we live on, though I am wrong, this is what I say.In the past, present, future, we live on as if in one time.You can never stop the past from happening,and it has happened , and will continu...”
“Positive disintegration is the sublimation of suffering”
“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
“Dispassionately, reasonably, he contemplated the failutre that his life must appear to be. He had wanted friendship and the closeness of friendship that might hold him in the race of mankind; he ha...”
“But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: it is neither perfect nor beautiful nor noble, and has no...”
“Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say is that human beings insist on value--we see the world through value ...”
“At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.”
“And it's always better, isn't it, when you discover answers on your own?”
“My world today is raw, it is a world of great vital difficulty. Because, more than a star, today I want the thick and black root of the stars, I want the source that always seems dirty, and is dirt...”
“A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.”
“The worst thing about pills was that they worked. Without them, you might just adapt; medical optimism suspended you in a maintenance reality. He'd never known how sick he was until he'd gotten hea...”
“Whatever may be the position of science, whatever may be the position of philosophy, as long as there is such a thing as death in the world, as long as there is such a thing as weakness in the huma...”
“Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.”
“Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!”
“I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I...”
“Without your stories, without your heroes and their awesome powers, how could you explain this, this here, this incomprehensible real that ever refuses to embrace any rule, any clich besides the in...”
“No more dreamin about the whole adult gig,Were no longer burnin toward nothing, dude. Just well on our way on a mythical ship, which no longer touches Land. God Bless the Capn.”
