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Niki Wang
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“Do not become attached to your suffering, and avoid those who do.”
― Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
― Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
“Sometimes falsehoods and myths that are "common wisdom" can survive indefinitely simply because the prospect of exposing them is itself rendered daunting or awkward by a taboo. An indefensible mutual presumption
can be kept aloft for years or even centuries because each person assumes that somebody else has some very good reasons for maintaining it, and nobody dares to challenge it.”
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can be kept aloft for years or even centuries because each person assumes that somebody else has some very good reasons for maintaining it, and nobody dares to challenge it.”
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“She takes a detour to the boutique on Salusbury Road and spends an hour leafing through clothes she doesn’t need before leaving with a pair of forest-green-framed sunglasses that she also doesn’t need.”
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“Another scholar who recognized an affinity between Spinozist and Taoist ethics was the Norwegian Jon Wetlesen. In The Sage and the Way: Spinoza’s Ethics of Freedom, Wetlesen writes that Taoism ‘does not aim at becoming what one is not, but in being what one is.”
― Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
― Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
“You can be in paradise only when you do not know what it is like to be in paradise. As soon as you know, paradise is gone. No effort of thought can take you back, for thought – the conscious awareness of yourself as a mortal being – is the Fall. In the Garden of Eden, the primordial human pair are clothed in ignorance of themselves. When they come to self-awareness, they find they are naked. Thinking of yourself is the gift of the serpent that cannot be returned.”
― Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
― Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
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