“You can have tons of talent, but it won’t necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, though, you’ll never go hungry.
“The most useful piece of learning for the
uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes”
― Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes”
― Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
“Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!”
― The ABC of Relativity
― The ABC of Relativity
“If your work is your self, when you cease to work, you cease to exist.”
― Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
― Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.” Hoshino looked up, mouth half open, and gazed at her face. “What’s that?” “Henri Bergson,” she replied, licking the semen from the tip of his penis. [...] “I can’t think of anything special, but could you quote some more of that philosophy stuff? I don’t know why, but it might keep me from coming so quick. Otherwise I’ll lose it pretty fast.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
― The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
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