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Robert Desnos, from Essential Poems & Writings; "Ancient Clamor,"

catchymemes

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Who's my guide? People around me. I see how they're living and i tell myself: "this is not how I want to live!"

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God and his paradoxes, how the soul sees so clearly in the darkness of nights...

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philosophybits

“At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But their attempt to lie to us is in vain. Cowardice doesn’t pay.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

suliqyre

You've found meaning in a particular idea. It feels valuable and important to you. You tell me about your idea and the meaning you've found in it. I listen carefully to your words, but I do not share in your conclusion. I cannot see the meaning of your idea. For me, the story you've crafted around it doesn't seem real or plausible.

I tell you about my doubts, supplying what I believe to be a convincing argument against your idea and its meaning. I do this because I want you to be free from delusion. I want you to see the reality of your idea as I do.

But in truth, all that's happened here is a disagreement. Your experiences and values have led you to feel that your idea is meaningful, whereas my experiences and values have led me to feel that it isn't. Neither of us is correct, regardless of the arguments or evidence we can muster for our own side.

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“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series

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“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, in Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century by John Gerassi

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“Life is short. That’s all there is to say. Get what you can from the present — thoughtfully, justly.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (4.26)

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Our ability to agree is important when we need to make decisions about our shared future. I might judge that the most significant facts lead to one conclusion, whereas you might feel other facts are more salient and support a different conclusion. Usually this is not a problem, as we can simply discuss the merits of the facts until we reach a conclusion that we can both accept.

But if we cannot even agree on what is a fact or what is true, then we might not be able to make any progress. Here, it can feel like we're living in two different realities. It can feel like I cannot bring you to see the world as I do and you cannot bring me to see it as you do.

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“We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices.”

— Bertrand Russell, The ABC of Relativity

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“I know that you might get angry at me, will shout at me, stamping your feet. ‘Speak,’ you’ll say, ‘for yourself alone and about your misères in the underground, but don’t dare to speak for all of us.’ Allow, gentlemen, that I am not trying to vindicate myself with this all-of-us-ness. What pertains to me personally is that which I alone have carried to extremes in my life, that which you didn’t dare carry half way through, and you even took your cowardice to be prudence, and took comfort in it, lying to yourselves. And so, perhaps, I come out as more ‘alive’ than you. Yes, take a closer look!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

lauramakabresku

The Cloud of Unknowing

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The cloud of Your presence enfolds me,

the flame of Your love transforms me into You

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Truths aren't found or discovered. You simply create them and live them. Whatever makes life a little more liveable and enjoyable, adapt them into your psyche. It becomes your truth. No, you aren't even here contesting empirical or universal truths but the point being made is about all those little truths that you embrace for your personal journey. Truths that aren't here to be preached but ones that are essential to move forward in your life...

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