Quincunx

“Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

“Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.”
― Émile Durkheim

“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“Life is too short to be unhappy.”
― J.W. Thompson