“Marrying,” Schopenhauer tells us, “means to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find an eel amongst an assembly of snakes.”
― Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
― Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Back in the Garden of Eden, maybe the forbidden fruit was forbidden for a reason. Who needs the fancy building, the priest and all the rest of it—even the Bible—if all you really need is the fruit?”
― The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
― The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
“Once you’ve plunged into the ocean, does it really matter whether or not you believe in water?”
― The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
― The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
“Anything that offers success in our unjust society without trying to change it is not revolutionary — it just helps people cope.”
― McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
― McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
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