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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
-- Saul Bellow |
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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
-- Schopenhauer |
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True sanity is a complete freedom from chaos, and chaos is found in all aspects of life, therefore sanity is achieved only in death.
-- Sean Biglane |
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Fear the faith that's not the shape of your soul.
-- Sepultura |
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Think how utterly, evilly selfish it is to have a child. Think of it! "Oh, honey, wouldn't a baby just be splendid? With its little hands, and its little feet and its little arms and legs and face and smile. Oh, we have to have one." Great, and once it's done, here is another little human to have to grow and learn what a sick collection of animals it is into which he's been born; who has to learn the pointlessness of the asinine cycle of human life; the pain and unhappiness that accompany; the stupidity of the majority; the outrage of old age and death; the unfair circumstances of competition amongst organisms; the injustice of suffering, the absurdity of doctrines and ideologies; the cold blade of war; the inner demons of hunger, desire, self-loathing; who will be taught to hate and feel shame and fear and remorse, regret, guilt; who will one day suck from nonexistence another little conscious body to continue the hideous lineage of incessant dark-humor; and who will one day die, wrapped in a urine-stained, hospital-issued death-shroud, plugged into beeping, blipping machines, fed through dripping bags armed with needles and at the mercy of smart-ass little nurses, who know not yet that they, too, will be faced with this end. What more horrific and vile an act than that of having a child? There can be none. Torture is not worse, murder is not worse, nor rape or anything else, because it is birth that precludes them all. Were it not for birth, none of these other atrocities would have even a chance to be performed. It is the miracle of birth and life that drowns the light of the world, and it is that selfish obeyance of desire that is hung over the heads of all parents in the look of disgust on their disaffected teenager's face. How can one repay an infinite offense?
-- Shane Smith |
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Is not all life pathetic and futile? ...We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow - misery.
-- Sherlock Holmes |
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Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
-- Sigmund Freud |
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The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
-- Sigmund Freud |
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Q: Do you think there's a God, some kind of supreme being or force in our universe?
A: I don't know. I don't believe in any religion. I think religions are among the greatest curses that ever afflicted mankind - look at all the wars and miseries they've caused. Perhaps the universe was here forever. Perhaps one day we may know the answer.
-- Sir Arthur C. Clarke |
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Q: But when you look at the design and the order in the universe, do you think it's logical to suppose that there's somekind of rational force behind it all?
A: Yes, the old argument for design has been around for a long time. The people who try to claim there must be a designer behind the universe only point at the good things that this designer has done. Our world is full of utterly horrible, atrocious things.
-- Sir Arthur C. Clarke |
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Q: But when you look at the univers - its scale and its beauty - are you not filled with a profound sense of awe?
A: It's wonderful and incomprehensible. It's beyond imagination, how huge and complex it is.
-- Sir Arthur C. Clarke |
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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
-- Sir Richard F. Burton |
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They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.
-- Solomon Northup |
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
-- Soren Kierkegaard |
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Mad? No. Eccentric perhaps. It must be admitted that I talk to myself, but I also have the good sense not to listen.
-- Spandrell |
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