"But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the most willful and (for want of a better word) magical in its logic, even if it has been in fashion for a couple of centuries or more."

-- David Bentley Hart

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“The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”
“I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.”
“I found myself doing extraordinary things that arent in the textbooks. Then the IMF asked the U.S. to please print money. The whole world is now practicing what they have been saying I should not. I decided that God had been on my side and had come to vindicate me.”
“things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.”

Source : Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth
“I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.”
“Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.”

Source : charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”
“Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rick James from Mar 24, 2014
“Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.”

Source : Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.118

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