Sunday 31 January 2010

January 31

The spirit moves with action yet action moves from the spirit. Our task is to start.

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One day, the messengers of the world will rise up and shoot first.

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With luck, we may be inoculated by experience. The only immunity against stupidity is to have contracted it at least once.

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Reform demands feeling but sentimentality is reactionary. Dickens’s first readers could congratulate themselves on their tender feelings for Smike even as they stepped over the child prostitute in their doorway.

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A better word for triumph is reprieve.

1 comment:

  1. Do you, in seeking for “the truth behind things,” just get bored with the same old hackneyed answers to the problems of life? Do you, as a fully-fledged “seeker after truth,” like to question the accepted wisdom of those whom are considered your intellectual betters? Do you, as a person “rejecting the lie of life,” tend to take the concept of personal enlightenment coaching with a pinch of salt? Do you, as a person who “loves the truth behind the lie,” truly wish to avoid the daily rants of over opinionated pundits whom aren’t fully-fledged street philosophers found in possession of copious amounts of street cred? Do you, as a “listener for falsehoods,” enjoy reading witty, worldly-wise aphorisms to pass the time before you drop down dead from over-indulgence in the fine art of easy living? If so, and as in the next few seconds you do have a completely free choice in the matter (if you do decide to decide quickly amidst pressing distractions); then, whatever you do decide to do next, inevitably you may either don’t or you do go to: http://swamiraj.wordpress.com/ —maybe simply because you can rather than you just can’t—so, don’t you go and do it just on any old account without thinking about it first…

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