“Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.”
― Asfixia
― Asfixia
“For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else. ”
― Night Train to Lisbon
― Night Train to Lisbon
“we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
Political Philosophy and Ethics
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