It's one of these juvenile therapy scams,” he went on, sprinkling a pinch of the Golden Virginia tobacco along the rolling paper. “They advertise help for your troubled teen by staring at the stars and singing ‘Kumbaya’. Instead, it’s a bunch of bearded nutjobs left in charge of some of the craziest kids I’ve ever seen in my life—bulimics, nymphos, cutters trying to saw their wrists with the plastic spoons from lunch. You wouldn’t believe the shit that went on.” He shook his head. “Most of the kids had been so mentally screwed by their parents they needed more than twelve weeks of wilderness. They needed reincarnation. To die and just come back as a grasshopper, as a fucking weed. That’d be preferable to the agony they were in just by being alive.
Marisha PesslMots clés life death suicide depression teenagers mental-health
Nothing is more conservative than a bacterium.
Nick LaneMots clés life evolution bacteria
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life.
Hermann Franz Moritz KoppMots clés science life experience purpose history meaning-of-life meaning effort views purpose-of-life historian alchemy scientist vain alchemists elixir elixir-of-life life-extension
I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.
Robert S. MullikenMots clés humor science life purpose meaning-of-life courage funny meaning suicide rationality hedonism interesting study purpose-of-life nobel-laureate scientist molecular-orbital-theory scientific-hedonism study-of-science
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses—and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius—and to deny that fact, is to stultify all history, whether it be that of the intellectual or the economic world.
Norman Robert CampbellMots clés science life music world history economics genius scientists intellect isaac-newton newton beethoven ludwig-van-beethoven richard-wagner wagner galileo bach giants geniuses galileo-galilei beneficent johann-sebastian-bach lavoisier lavoisier-antione-lavoisier
Then one day followed the next without the basic questions of life ever being solved.
Friederike MayröckerMots clés life
Life is the reflection of consciousness. Change your consciousness and your life will change.
Torkom SaraydarianMots clés life consciousness
Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.
Alan McCluskeyMots clés life future writing structure
There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.
George WatskyMots clés life inspirational music philosophical true deep music-lyrics pointless useless worthless
Enjoy what you have this moment. Don't wait around for something that might not happen.
Xena ThorntonMots clés life inspirational reality
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