“[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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