Jack Hodge
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“Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
“I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed.”
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“What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, 'to kill time', i.e. to escape boredom.”
― The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
― The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
“When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul — then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness!”
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“The eighty-four thousand methods for countering the eighty-four thousand forms of delusion are merely figures of speech for drawing people towards the Gate.”
― The Zen Teachings of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind
― The Zen Teachings of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind
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