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an advertising of one’s willingness to fight and even to put one’s life on the line—were at least plausible means of gaining whatever measure of security was possible in a lawless region and a violent time. The kinds of attitudes and
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“Knowledge isn't truth. It's just mindless agreement. You agree with me, I agree with someone else - we all have knowledge. We haven't come any closer to the truth. You can never understand anything by agreeing, by making definitions. Only by turning over the possibilities. That's called thinking. If I say "I know", I stop thinking. As long as I keep thinking, I come to understand. That way, I might approach some truth.”
― Plays 1: Insignificance / Unsuitable for Adults / Cries from the Mammal House
― Plays 1: Insignificance / Unsuitable for Adults / Cries from the Mammal House
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
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“You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.”
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“Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”
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Carlos’s 2025 Year in Books
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