John

“Kotov’s emphasis on the im portance of planning was clearly in spired by communist ideology. In the attitude of ‘better a bad plan than no plan at all’ there’s a spark of the old socialist heroism visible – here they go, the workers united under the red banner, maybe their plan is not the best, but they sure have a plan!”
― Willy Hendriks, Move First, Think Later: Sense and Nonsense in Improving Your Chess

“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
― Georges Bataille, Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille

“In what will survive me
I am in harmony
with my annihilation.”
― Georges Bataille

“Life is a constant process of dying.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer