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I doubt if he ever confronted and acknowledged his own deeper motivations, except when they were as pure as spring water.


Dan Simmons


#motivational

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.


Jean-Paul Sartre


#sartre #nature

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mendacious minute of "world history"- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#philosophy #nature

At the beginning of human history, man lost some of the basic animal instincts in which an animal's behavior is embedded and by which it is secured. Such security, like paradise, is closed to man forever; man has to make choices. In addition to this, however, man has suffered another loss in his more recent development inasmuch as the traditions which buttressed his behavior are now rapidly diminishing. No instinct tells him what he has to do, and no tradition tells him what he ought to do; sometimes he does not even know what he wishes to do. Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people tell him to do (totalitarianism).


Viktor E. Frankl


#conformity

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.


Emily Greene Balch


#determined #existent #foresee #future #happenings

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.


Barbara Ehrenreich


#about #ago #brash #career #century

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.


John Entwistle


#days #early #equipment #gradually #had

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.


Franz Kafka


#create #desired #does #exist #nonexistent

Mma Ramotswe had listened to a World Service broadcast on her radio one day which had simply taken her breath away. It was about philosophers who called themselves existentialists and who, as far as Mma Ramotswe could ascertain, lived in France. These French people said that you should just live in a way which made you feel real, and that the real thing to do was the right thing too. Mma Ramotswe had listened in astonishment. You did not have to go to France to meet existentialists, she reflected; there were many existentialists right here in Botswana. Note Mokoti, for example. She had been married to an existentialist herself, without even knowing it. Note, that selfish man who never once put himself out for another--not even for his wife--would have approved of existentialists, and they of him. It was very existentialist, perhaps, to go out to bars every night while your pregnant wife stayed at home, and even more existentialist to go off with girls--young existentialist girls--you met in bars. It was a good life being an existentialist, although not too good for all the other, nonexistentialist people around one.


Alexander McCall Smith


#morality #philosophy #beauty

What is life? - A novel. Who is the author? - Anonymous. We read haltingly, laugh, weep... and sleep. Что наша жизнь? - роман. Кто автор? - аноним. Читаем по складам, смеемся, плачем... спим.


Nikolai Karamzin


#life






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