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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

Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments in life could feel: heightened with the sense that anything could happen at any moment--that being alive is important, because just when you least expect it, you might receive exactly what you least expect.


Douglas Coupland


#life #possibility #wishful-thinking #life

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.


Andrew Lo


#conceit #crisis #economics #events #financial

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.


Gerald F. Lieberman


#thinking #where #wishful #wishful thinking

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.


Bjorn Lomborg


#public #public policy #sound #thinking #wishful

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.


Thomas Sowell


#case #either #expense #idealism #in other words

I love you, lirsha


Larissa Ione


#love

I guess I had always sort of fantasized that a guy would see me and get past the ponytail and the glasses and the giant sweatshirt to discover how insanely awesome I am, then come and whisk me off into that magical teenager fairytale where everyone else gets to prance around.


Jeff Sampson


#emily-webb #fantasy #love #magic #relationship

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.


C. S. Lewis


#comfort #despair #either #end #find

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.


Jalal Talabani


#one thing #reality #thing #thinking #wishful






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