"Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure."

-- Josef Pieper

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“What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?”
“Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being prevented subverts the consciousness and the behavior of man, not even a catastrophe will bring about the change." ...”
“It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.”
“Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it”
“Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.”

Source : Source: www.mantlethought.org
“A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.”
“Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.”
“Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.”

Source : Paul Zindel (2011). “The Pigman”, p.139, Graymalkin Media

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