weirdly insightful sentences

sentences (or small paragraphs) that make my brain happy

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”

―Oscar Ameringer

Gurwinder • Gurwinder (@gurwinder)

God makes you walk in circles until you’re exhausted enough to just be yourself

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

-Terry Pratchett

“Nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence.”

-Octavia Butler

your relationship to winter is your relationship to cold is your relationship to darkness is your relationship to depth is your relationship to death is your relationship to spirituality

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“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”

— David Foster Wallace

Never has humanity been so powerful, and at the same time so distrustful of our power.

Jason Crawford • The Present Crisis

journaling only works if you write faster than you can lie to yourself

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the central lie of modernity is that the world is a large complex system that can only be understood via "trends" and "demographic shifts".

Gurwinder • Gurwinder (@gurwinder)

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Jason Crawford • The Present Crisis

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