The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd.
The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: “anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.
Tag: men women empathy courage absurdity sensitivity
If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean—even if it did build muscle—whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same me but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period… the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities.
Christopher HitchensTag: life money women parents philosophy youth opportunity old-age desire absurdity self-contradiction wishful-thinking conundrums groundhog-day tiresias
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my
revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of
consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation
to death—and I refuse suicide.
Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drink, he had better lay in a couple thousand tablets of viagra. The drug would probably remain potent if he vacuum packed the pills in groups of 10 and kept them in a freezer. That would work unless civilization completely collapsed and power companies were unable to function. Fortunately, Jim had a propane-powered backup generator with half a dozen tanks of fuel already on hand. If Henry added to the propane supply, and he used the generator only for essential maintenance like keeping the viagra freezer operating in warm weather, he would be happy here on the farm for a looong, looong time. Unless, even now, dead Jim was out there in the generator shed sabotaging the machinery.
Dean KoontzTag: paranoia absurdity male-thinking end-of-the-world
Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
Karl LagerfeldTag: art style energy originality unique absurd creativity design absurdity uniqueness create bipolar duality fashion-designer karl-lagerfeld anti-absurdity bi dual
The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.
Benjamin FranklinTag: paradox practice satire theory rules absurdity contradiction doctrines
A partir du moment où elle est reconnue, l'absurdité est une passion, la plus déchirante de toutes.
Albert CamusTag: absurdity
A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign and irreducible to us, with what intensity nature or a landscape can negate us. At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise. The primitive hostility of the world rises up to face us across millenia.
Albert CamusTag: world strangeness absurdity hostility
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Arthur SchopenhauerTag: youth absurdity indoctrination
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
Arthur SchopenhauerTag: life absurdity nothingness
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