"At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work."

-- Publilius Syrus

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“...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of humans. A capacity to feel pain obviously enhances a species' prospects of survival...it is surely unreasonable to suppose that nervous systems that are virtually identical physiologically, have a common origin and a common evolutionary function, and result in similar forms of behavior in similar circumstances should actually operate in an entirely different manner on the level of subjective feelings.”
“Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.”
“He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.”
“Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.”
“The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.”

Source : "Sex and Character" by Otto Weininger, (pp. 139-140), 1906.
“If you don't have your friends, you start to go a bit mad. That's why in the future I don't want to be constantly acting, going from one film to another. I just think it would be so very lonely to be away from your friends and family for so long and no proper kind of routine.”

Source : "The GQ+A: Meek Mill on Kendrick Lamar, Twitter Hashtags, and Being Rich Forever". Interview with Nate Erickson, www.gq.com. December 20, 2013.
“My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.”
“Suicide rates have not slumped under the onslaught of antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, anxiolytic and anti-psychotic drugs; the jump in suicide rates suggests that the opposite is true. In some cases, suicide risk skyrockets once treatment begins (the patient may feel not only penalized for a justifiable reaction, but permanently stigmatized as malfunctioning). Studies show that self-loathing sharply decreases only in the course of cognitive-behavioral treatment.”

Source : Antonella Gambotto-Burke (2013). “The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide”, p.15, Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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