“One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular…

“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps…

“We never know self-realization. We are two abysses—a well staring at the sky.”—Fernando Pessoa, The Book Of Disquiet

“But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
Gang aft…

“Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehensibility of life, since it represents clearly only the…

“The past virtually contains the whole.”—Henri Bergson, Matter And Memory

Every regime that tortures does so in the name of salvation, some superior goal, some promise of paradise. Call it…

“Now that the world has made men speechless, not to be on speaking terms is to be in the right.”—Theodor Adorno, Mini…

“Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move is dictated by…

“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”—Alexander Smith

“I’m here!”
“No, you’re not!”—Elliot and Darlene, “Payment Required”

“This is how we are believers today—we make fun of our beliefs, while continuing to practice them, that is, to rely…

“Science has promised us truth...it has never promised us either peace or happiness.”—Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A…

“Trusting thus opens one up to harm, for it gives rise to selective interpretation, which means that one can be…

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether or not life is worth…

“First, capitalism is a pure religious cult, perhaps the most extreme there ever was.”—Walter Benjamin, “Capitalism…

“Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after…

“For the observation that prison fails to eliminate crime, one should perhaps substitute the hypothesis that prison…

“Danger and habit: Both create environments in which the climate of betrayal is so pervasive that individual acts of…

“If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods.”—Baron d’Holbach