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Stephen Firestone
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“The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.”
― Darkness at Noon
― Darkness at Noon
“It is often remarked that nothing we do now will matter in a million years. But if that is true, then by the same token, nothing that will be the case in a million years matters now. In particular, it does not matter now that in million years nothing we do now will matter.”
― Mortal Questions
― Mortal Questions
“One of our signature flaws as a species: we will risk almost anything to avoid looking stupid.”
― The Glass Hotel
― The Glass Hotel
“My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air.”
― Reasons and Persons
― Reasons and Persons
“Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther.”
― A Treatise of Human Nature
― A Treatise of Human Nature
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