Quotes
“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” — Charles Bukowski
“In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”
Kwame Anthony Appiah (via Graham Duncan, The Playing Field)
Kwame Anthony Appiah (via Graham Duncan, The Playing Field)
“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated
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What made the hours pass like minutes when you were a child? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.” — Carl Jung
“We consume, as we produce, without any concrete relatedness to the objects with which we deal; We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.”
— Erich Fromm , “The Sane Society”
Philosophors • The Wisdom Letter #054
“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.”
— Victor Hugo
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“The greatest trick the devil ever played was making you believe that the pessimists are the good guys.” – Packy McCormick