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I know that she’s playing the card where Jordan is into ‘80s music and movies, so she /must be/ on the same mental level at 19 as this 30-something guy and was “born in the wrong decade” but this still feels kind of creepy and sleazy to me and I haven’t even gotten to anything really romantic or sexual.
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times... Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
“I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.”
― Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
― Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism
“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
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