Complicated machinery has had to be matched by complicated social arrangements, designed to work as smoothly and efficiently as the new instruments of production.
You ask if I know, i know I know but I can't explain how. so i tell you i can't know, but if i can't know, then how can i tell you i can't know if you now know that i know i can't know?
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
-Ivan Illich
Sometime's people's illusions don't want people to hear the truth because they'll be destroyed.
When you look for happiness outside yourself, it is like sand in the hands, when you have it, it slips away. When you find happiness from within, you become the sand.
The worst you can do is kill me. What I can do to you, however, is far more horrifying. I Can wake you up.
Don't open your eyes, you won't like what you see; the devils of truth steal the souls of the free... don't open your eyes, take it from me--I have found you can find happiness in slavery...
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
-Christopher Isherwood
You know what, Stuart? I like you. You're not like the other people, here, in the trailer park.
A quick guide to politics in one easy step!
1. Is this necessary?
Yes: Think about it more.
No: Drop the issue.
The sad thing in the world is a dying man who never had an original thought in his whole life.
Nietzsche thought he was the Antichrist or Dionysus, but that was after the syphilis crossed the blood-brain barrier.
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