“If you think about it long enough, you see that the paradox is actually pointing you to the idea that we have no freedom whatsoever. If we're forced to use free will, what meaning does freedom have?”
― quote from The November Criminals
“That's how life is: it provides these accidental answers. Or it seems to. You have to judge by results.”
― quote from The November Criminals
“Success is supposed to lead you on to more success. Our whole society is constructed around this principle.”
― quote from The November Criminals
“His story also demonstrates an obscure truth. Having a plan, any plan, means you know on some level you're going to fail, you're in the wrong. This contradicts everything I've been taught, all the larger principles of modern life, which are all about planning and calculation. But if you're going to success, how could you need to think it out beforehand? If you had the necessary confidence--in every case perfect, unbreakable confidence--the idea of a plan would make you laugh.”
― quote from The November Criminals
“En la felicidad hay un sabor, como un trasfondo o algo así, de que la vida está irremediablemente mal.”
― quote from The November Criminals
“Reliable mediocrity, I’ve decided, is the most important thing for the continuation of human existence.”
― quote from The November Criminals
“The artist is the closest man comes to being God.”
― Leonard Peikoff, quote from Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
“Después de todo ¿por qué era necesario amar a un ser humano? Nunca duraba mucho. Había demasiadas diferencias entre cada individuo, y lo que empezaba siendo amor acababa siempre en guerra despiadada”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from South of No North
“I believe your trouble, which is a congestion, has come from having things stored away. Congestion of things causes congestion in the body.”
― quote from The Game Of Life How To Play It
“Evolution has produced us more recently, and that makes us the smartest ever. After all, we invented the parking lot.”
― N.D. Wilson, quote from Leepike Ridge
“It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.”
― Richard Hofstadter, quote from The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
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