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"Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?"
Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers
“If you’re very, very stupid, how can you possibly realize that you’re very, very stupid?”
John Cleese
“People do not realize just how much they are putting at risk when they don’t accept what Life presents them with, the questions and tasks that Life sets them. When they resolve to spare themselves the pain and suffering, they owe to their nature. In so doing, they refuse to pay Life’s dues and for this very reason, Life then often leads them astray. If we don’t accept our own destiny, a different kind of suffering takes its place: a neurosis develops, and I believe that that Life which we have to live is not as bad as a neurosis. If I have to suffer, then let it be from my reality. A neurosis is a much greater curse! In general, a neurosis is a replacement for an evasion, an unconscious desire to cheat Life, to avoid something. One cannot do more than Live what one really is. And we are all made up of opposites and conflicting tendencies. After much reflection, I have come to the conclusion that it is better to Live what one really is and accept the difficulties that arise as a result—because avoidance is much worse. Today I can say: I have been true to myself I have done what I could do the best of my knowledge and conscience. Whether it was right or not, I cannot say. Suffering was inevitable in any case. But I want to suffer for those things which really belong to me."
Carl Jung
"New Finnish Study on the Net Financial Costs of different immigrant groups. It replicates the findings of the famous Danish and Dutch studies - almost all immigrant groups are net costs to Finland. Migrants from the Middle East and North Africa are the biggest financial drains"
Kunley Drupka
"We thought it was our ability to love that made us human, but it turns out it was actually our ability to select each image containing a boat."
"We thought it was our ability to love that made us human, but it turns out it was actually our ability to select each image containing a boat."
Anonymous on Facebook
'"In the name of common sense," asked the old gentleman, rather testily, "what can be better for a man than his own parlor and chimney-corner?"'
Nathaniel Hawthorne, who is the most boring novelist I ever read, in The House of the Seven Gables, chapter XVII. I wish I had an open fire and chimney.
"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx
I saw this in Henry Pordes bookshop in Charing Cross Rd - the Charing Cross Rd was my spiritual home but now, alas alas, has only two second hand bookshops left.
'"In the name of common sense," asked the old gentleman, rather testily, "what can be better for a man than his own parlor and chimney-corner?"'
Nathaniel Hawthorne, who is the most boring novelist I ever read, in The House of the Seven Gables, chapter XVII. I wish I had an open fire and chimney.
"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx
I saw this in Henry Pordes bookshop in Charing Cross Rd - the Charing Cross Rd was my spiritual home but now, alas alas, has only two second hand bookshops left.
No no you don't understand, Israel is protecting western civilization. If we don't help Israel genocide the Palestinians and starve their children and burn their babies and bomb their hospitals and demolish their cities, one day we could wind up ruled by evil murderous savages.
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