Sign in with Facebook
“A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits of endowment and environment- he has made out of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Princes & Kings
Isn't it strange how princes and kings,
and clowns that caper in sawdust rings,
and common people, like you and me,
are builders for eternity?
Each is given a list of rules;
a shapeless mass; a bag of tools.
And each must fashion, ere life is flown,
A stumbling block, or a Stepping-Stone.”
―
Isn't it strange how princes and kings,
and clowns that caper in sawdust rings,
and common people, like you and me,
are builders for eternity?
Each is given a list of rules;
a shapeless mass; a bag of tools.
And each must fashion, ere life is flown,
A stumbling block, or a Stepping-Stone.”
―
“The magic in these Masonic rituals is very, very old. And way back in those days, it worked. As time went on, and it started being used for spectacle, to consolidate what were only secular appearances of power, it began to lose its zip. But the words, moves, and machinery have been more or less faithfully carried down over the millennia, through the grim rationalizing of the World, and so the magic is still there, though latent, needing only to touch the right sensitive head to reassert itself.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
Kishman N. Spence’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kishman N. Spence’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
931 books
|
29 friends
4 books
|
63 friends
8 books
|
46 friends
0 books
|
15 friends
1 book
|
68 friends
1 book
|
31 friends
1 book
|
27 friends
2 books
|
36 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Kishman N. Spence
Lists liked by Kishman N. Spence
