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We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.
We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a read more
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.
Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.
Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a read more
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.
...the evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups read more
...the evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.
Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.
Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.
