"As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what human consciousness opens up to is merely a more encompassing form of finitude (another captivating illusion or delusion)."

-- Kenny Smith

#Philosophy Quotes #Self Quotes #Majority Quotes

“There's this kind of almost - kind of a weird kind of elitism that says well maybe - maybe certain people in certain parts of the world shouldn't be free; maybe it's best just to let them sit in these tyrannical societies. And our foreign policy rejects that concept. And we don't accept it. And so we're working.”
“Inside the mind of 'America's Mad Genius' is not necessarily a place you want to visit.”
“I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.”
“There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I was. My major problem, inadequate or inappropriate love from my parents, was as common as dirt. And one rainy day, all the boring poignancy of these realizations detonated in me like an atom bomb, burning the dead shadow of each former torment or preoccupation onto solid rock. Those silhouettes, that record would remain: the museum where I used to be.”

Source : J. D. Daniels (2017). “The Correspondence”, p.25, Random House
“I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.”
“When you post something, when you text something, you lose ownership of it when you hit enter or send. Who you send it to, where you post it, they take ownership of that information whether you like it or not.”
“An "I know what I like" mentality is hard to shake, but of course appreciation has space for being challenged.”
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

Source : Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.

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