Leen

“I thought that it was strange to assume that it was abnormal for anyone to be forever asking questions about the nature of the universe, about what the human condition really was, my condition, what I was doing here, if there was really something to do. It seemed to me, on the contrary, that it was abnormal for people NOT to think about it, for them to allow themselves to live, as it were, unconsciously. Perhaps it's because everyone, all the others, are convinced in some unformulated, irrational way that one day everything will be made clear. Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for humanity. Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for me.”
― Eugène Ionesco, The Hermit

“Ouders nemen niet zomaar de primaire verantwoordelijkheid over wat hun kinderen met internet doen; sommigen schuiven die door naar de school. Maar de school hoort een tweederangsrol te spelen in de opvoeding van kinderen, geen eersterangsrol. Anderzijds is het dan weer zo dat kinderen zeker via het onderwijs moeten worden voorbereid op de taak die hen te wachten staat: ze zullen moeten de wereld maken. Daar is filosofische reflectie voor nodig, en dus zou filosofie een verplicht onderdeel moeten zijn van het lessenrooster in een of enkele jaren van het middelbaar onderwijs.”
― Dirk De Wachter

“it's notorious, ah you can't deny it, some people are lucky, born of a wet dream and dead before morning”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

“Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to. Seems like the human race is in love with itself. What kind of ego do you have to have to think that you were created in God's image? I mean, to invent the idea that God must be like us. Please. As Stanley Kubrick once pointed out, the discovery of more intelligent life somewhere other than Earth would be catastrophic to man, simply because we would no longer be able to think of ourselves as the centre of the universe. I guess I'm slowly becoming one of those crusty old cranks that thinks animals are better than people. But, occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with one of them, so go figure.”
― Mark Oliver Everett, Things The Grandchildren Should Know