February 2010
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“The college was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the contrary.”
– May Sarton, A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing, ed. James Charlton, p. 16.
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“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via pedder) (via justanothernancyboy) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
My feelings exactly. Words like these were inspiring to me when I was an undergraduate, and I can thank the “existentialists” for this idea (and one particular philosophy professor who taught with a...
January 2010
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GUILTY PLEASURE: Duran Duran —...
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“Leno, too, can be pretty gross—and he’s not as funny [as Conan...”
– Nancy Franklin, “Nightmare,” The New Yorker, Feb. 1, 2010, p. 77.
I post this because Franklin’s comparison concerning Leno’s return to The Tonight Show strikes me as perfect. With very few words she nails the situation. The same old jokes: tired, tired, tired. I love...
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“He doesn’t believe in talking too much about art, especially while you’re...”
– Robert Hellenga (The Sixteen Pleasures) (via bunkercomplex) (via enormousair)
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Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger | The Onion -... →
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“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it...”
– Albert Camus (via booklover) (via jjarichardson) (via ataxiwardance) (via sunshadowpoet) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here....”
– Personal correspondence (1839), as quoted in Dostoevsky: His Life and Work (1971) by Konstantin Mochulski, as translated by Michael A. Minihan, p. 17 (via dostoyevsky) (via enormousair)
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Steppenwolf — “The Pusher”
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The Rolling Stones — “Sweet Black...
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Stevie Ray Vaughan — in an interview,...
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“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the...”
– John Stuart Mill: On Liberty (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
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Jackson Browne — (introduction to a live...
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“Man’s conscience doesn’t determine his existence. His social being determines...”
– Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
—Straight out of Karl Marx.
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“This Versace man is a tough, anti-establishment male who inhabits a...”
– Actual quote from an actual press release we got describing the new Versace collection. (via putthison)
I shudder to think of the amount of money someone was paid to write that piece of “text.” This is a very good example that explains, in part, why I believe—though I am a...
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Philip Larkin — “Aubade”
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Sontag on Camus
msodradek:
Being a contemporary, he had to traffic in the madmen’s themes: suicide, affectlessness, guilt, absolute terror. But he does so with such an air of reasonableness, mesure, effortlessness, gracious impersonality, as to place him apart from the others. Starting from the premises of a popular nihilism, he moves the reader—solely by the power of his own tranquil voice and tone—to humanist...
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“For man does not come into the world endowed with a soul; he dies with one,...”
– Unamuno, The Agony of Christianity, trans. Loving (Payson & Clarke, 1928), 21. (via enormousair)
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Pascal's Wager
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enormousair:
And for another perspective…
The ultimate degeneration of all this into a mere bargain was made unpleasantly obvious by Blaise Pascal, whose theology is not far short of sordid. His celebrated wager puts it in hucksterish form…. (Hitchens, God Is Not Great (Twelve, 2007), 211.
And Richard Dawkins, in The God Delusion:
There is something distinctly odd about the...
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Ike & Tina Turner (w/ Albert King on guitar)...
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The Pen Addict: Top 5 Pens Off The Store Shelf →
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This dude rates the Pilot G2 pen best of all, which is damned cliché if you as me — everybody loves the pilot G2 (is it the marketing?). Personally, I think the G2’s ink is too drippy and the flow is uncontrollable. My favorite store-shelf pen of the moment is Pilot’s Extra Fine Needle Point. It’s cheap. It’s neat. And it’s great for writing and...
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The Firearms of Jesus Christ →
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“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (via psychotherapy) (via libraryland)
Yeah.
Sometimes it seems like all of Freud is a series of footnotes to Dostoevsky.
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Nietzsche on Dostoevsky as psychologist (for enormousair and libraryland): “In regard to the problem before us the...
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“Our terrors and our darknesses of mind
Must be dispelled, not by the sunshine’s...”
– Lucretius (c. 98-55 BC)
I think I’ve said this before, but I’m constantly surprised that Lucretius isn’t more widely read right now.
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Me too, dawg, me too.
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