exestential

F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote,

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

But to Fitzgerald, I ask: Wouldn’t the nuance that surrounds two fundamentally-opposed ideas render, if not you, then at least any meaningful conclusions fundamentally... See more

Dostoyevsky said it best, yeah? “It is better to be unhappy and know the worst , than to be happy in a fool’s paradise”

That is all we have, this moment with the world. It will not last, because nothing lasts. Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the universe consists of losing, and no matter how much we find along the way, life amounts to a reverse savings account in which we are eventually robbed of everything. Our dreams and plans and jobs and knees... See more