DIVINE IRONY

In a world dominated by magical thinking, superstition, and misinformation, give yourself the benefit of doubt. Keep an eye out for superstitious nonsense and seek to demystify and celebrate the natural world. "Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure." -George Carlin “To sacrifice the Earth for Paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow" -Victor Hugo “Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.” -Carl Sagan The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. It may be a long farewell, but it has begun and, like all farewells, should not be protracted. -Christopher Hitchens

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“Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

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“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”

— Simone Weil, The Need for Roots

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“Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life

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Quote of the day…

[fuckyeahexistentialism]

“To those who do not know that the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.”

— Bertolt Brecht 

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“The trouble is, you think you have time.”

— Buddha (via nargessi)

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But Time has you!

[scientificphilosopher]

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

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Beware of false prophets

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“All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night (via quotespile)

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“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.”

— Albert Camus, “Three Interviews”, Lyrical and Critical Essays

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“There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that ‘remembered’ a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.”

— Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind

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“I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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“There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan (via quotespile)

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There’s not, and entropy always wins.

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“Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares to be absurd, beware lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life… anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”

— Voltaire, Questions sur les miracles

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“None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena