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All things are not as difficualt for who faces them with more serenity.
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All things are not as difficualt for who faces them with more serenity.
Philosophy is a battle against the deceit of our intelligence by means of the meaning of language.
Young people cannot know what old people think and feel. But the old are conscious, but forget what being young means.
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 highest 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.
One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist; and when it is done for again, nothing will have happened.
Love and hate falsify our judgement entirely. In our enemies we see nothing but faults, in our loved ones nothing but excellences, and even their faults appear to us amiable.
In the end one becomes what one is.
Philosophy is an extraordinarily ingenious take on thinking wrong.
It's better to hated for what we are, than to be loved for the mask we wear.
As anyone can tell you, I'm not an agreeable person: I don't even know what that means. I've always admired the baddies, the outlaws, the sons of bitches. I don't like perfectly shaven men, with a tie and a good job. I like desperate men, with broken teeth, with the brain in pieces and a disgusting life. I'm interested in them. They're full of surprises. I also have a small spot for sluts, for those who get drunk and swear, that have loose tights and smudged make-up. I'm more interested in perverts than saints. I relax with stoners because I'm a stoner too. I don't like laws, morale, religions, rules. I don't want to be moulded by society.
All that which is greatly thought upon is a source of doubt.