philosophy

"LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy."

"I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it."

"Don’t you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough about the world?” asked Connor irrelevantly."

"I have forgotten my umbrella."

"Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments."

"Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality."

"Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure."

"Long Term Relationships [10w] Long term relationships should begin and end with a laugh."

"Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing concentric circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird."

"Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever."

"To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right.3. Charity is immoral.4. Pay for your own fucking schools."

"Opportunities Come a Knockin' [10w] Never miss the opportunity to fuck or write poetry."

"The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death."

"Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are"

"Like the sun, start each day with a smile."

"Find someone who loves you enough to forgive you for all of your mistakes."

"Galoshes Haiku Cherry blossoms bloomin the morning mist.Thank God I took my galoshes."

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

"Pussy [10w] Her pussy was heaven's gate and the backdoor of hell."

"TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty."