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Fri 27 Feb 2015

Big question

Posted by PJ under questions and answers, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo, not a man.”

—Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, Vol. 1

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Thu 26 Feb 2015

Selfish compassion

Posted by PJ under compassion, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“In this society, we view compassion as a favor, something along the lines of forgiveness extended to the humble and deserving. No. My compassion is utterly selfish, and is rooted in a craving for power. It is compelled by my curiosity, itself, just another name for hunger, for desire, for want of the great power of knowing. It is not enough for me to sit around scoring morality points on dead people, all the while blind to the living morality of this troubled time. There’s no power in that. I need to know more.”

―Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Compassion,” TheAtlantic.com, Sept. 17, 2010

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Wed 25 Feb 2015

Being human

Posted by PJ under being human, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I am human: I consider nothing that is human alien to me.”

—Terence, Heauton Timorumenos

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Tue 24 Feb 2015

Focused

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, sex
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Random quote of the day:

“Art is like sex: when you’re doing it, nothing else matters.”

—John Banville, interview, The Paris Review, No. 188, Spring 2009

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Mon 23 Feb 2015

Freedom to fail

Posted by PJ under failure, ideas, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We should accomplish nothing in this world if we were not guided by wrong ideas.”

—Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle, as quoted by Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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Fri 20 Feb 2015

Borrowers

Posted by PJ under money, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Do not heap up upon poverty, which has man attendant evils, the perplexities which arise from borrowing and owing.”

—Plutarch, Moralia

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Thu 19 Feb 2015

Gimme whiskey

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing. The number of alcoholic writers makes a lot of sense because if you’re going to be face to face with yourself, maybe it’s better that you don’t recognize that person.”

—Fran Lebowitz, quoted in “AT LUNCH WITH: Fran Lebowitz; Words Are Easy, Books Are Not,” by Bob Morris, New York Times, August 10, 1994

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Wed 18 Feb 2015

Detestify

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, vegetables
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Random quote of the day:

“I dislike [spinach], and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.”

—Monsieur Prudhomme (Henri Monnier), quoted in Gustave Flaubert’s Dictionary of Accepted Ideas

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Tue 17 Feb 2015

No, more like a shaman

Posted by PJ under idiots, jung, mysticism, quote of the day, shamanism
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Random quote of the day:

“Everyone who thinks that I am a mystic is just an idiot.”

—Carl Jung, interview with Richard I. Evans, Professor of Psychology, University of Houston, 1957

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Mon 16 Feb 2015

Wise guys

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, wisdom
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Random quote of the day:

“The past was survival of the fittest. The future will be survival of the wisest.”

—Deepak Chopra, interview, KCAL News, October 25, 2010

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