#self

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If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean—even if it did build muscle—whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same me but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period… the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities.


Christopher Hitchens


#conundrums #desire #groundhog-day #life #money

Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.


Malcolm Wilson


#being #everyone #feels #find #go

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.


Robert Anton Wilson


#consciousness #explains #infinite #itself #regress

Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible.


Stephen Richards


#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.


Woodrow Wilson


#caution #confidential #selfishness

How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.


Thomas Wilson


#become #character #culture #deeply #forced

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.


Stevie Wonder


#doing #find #go #had #i

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.


Woodrow Wilson


#be happy #been #deep #first #happy

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.


Woodrow Wilson


#conceive #convenience #greatest #i #itself

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.


Evan Rachel Wood


#take #time #you #yourself