Raad

“The most useful piece of learning for the
uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes”
― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing

“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.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!”
― Bertrand Russell, The ABC of Relativity