An Unenviable Situation

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

No one in this world has ever lost money overestimating the American addiction to public expressions of self-love.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: You are almost certainly familiar, then, with the notion in psychology of compensatory drives, and have accurately concluded that the mechanism actually on display is profound self-loathing ...

/ehj2; 4:35 PM

"I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty."

George Santayana

Ernst Kantorowicz: “Looking at the stars, I feel my own futility.”

Erwin Panofsky: “All I feel is the futility of the stars.”

"I shall make a poem out of [about] nothing at all:

It will not speak of me or others,

Of love or youth, or of anything else,

For it was composed while I was asleep

Riding on horseback."

William IX of Aquitaine

"If there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics."

Richard Nixon

“Fact, value! Value, fact! Fact, value! Value, fact! FACT, VALUE! VALUE, FACT!”

Piero Sraffa

“Cognitive science is the creation science of psychology”

B.F. Skinner

"Mailer was a Left Conservative."

"Irony is the glory of slaves."

Czeslaw Milosz

“Doing these cases, I began to find myself in a dangerous situation as an advocate. I came to believe in the truth of what I was saying."

John Mortimer

"Behind the chiliasm of modern man, is the megalomania of self-infinitization."

Daniel Bell

"It is painful to note that we find similar errors in two opposed schools: the bourgeois school and the socialist school. 'Moralize! Moralize!' cry both with missionary fervor."

Baudelaire

"Why be a man when you can be a success."

Bertolt Brecht

"What is the good of philosophy if it does not make me a better human being?”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"No one in my tradition believes that the words are very important."

Richard Lewontin

"A religion is a form of utopia: when it disappears, alternative utopias appear"

Emmanuel Todd

"Every one knows every one else far too well for business purposes."

Rudyard Kipling

"I'm just here so I won't get fined."

Marshawn Lynch

"I have come to the end. It is for others to judge."

Desiderius Erasmus

"Deficiency in judgement is properly that which is called stupidity; and for such a failing we know no remedy."

Immanuel Kant

"Optimism is cowardice"

Oswald Spengler

"You must overbend the material past the desired bend angle and allow it to return to the desired shape with the springback."

Art Hedrick

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