Mike Monje

“This might be one reason that politicians appear to be such hypocrites. My guess is that—and maybe I'm just naïve—politicians, despite appearances, aren't actually all that much more hypocritical than the rest of us. It's just that the rest of us skate by without anyone noticing.”
― Robert Kurzban, Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind

“They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide. ”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

“is to the original as the sphere of opinion is to the sphere of knowledge? Most undoubtedly.”
― Plato, The Republic

“When it is founded on decision, love is no longer an unreliably moving passion, but the fulfillment to which alone real Being reveals itself.”
― Walter Kaufmann, Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre