weirdly insightful sentences
sentences (or small paragraphs) that make my brain happy
weirdly insightful sentences
“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
―Oscar Ameringer
Gurwinder (@gurwinder)
God makes you walk in circles until you’re exhausted enough to just be yourself
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“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
“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
the central lie of modernity is that the world is a large complex system that can only be understood via "trends" and "demographic shifts".