"It was remarked earlier that the real Form of all things, including man, comes to be a "double exposure" of life and death. All living things can be seen under the Form of death without thereby being separated from their proper Form of life. The real appearance of these things must be seen at ground to rest on the basis of absolute being-sive-nothingness, nothingness-sive-being, or of the absolute non-duality of life and death as we have just described it."

-Keiji Nishitani

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.


Timothy Leary

i would be angered by that non-sequitur if it didn't fit timothy leary

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.


John F. Kennedy

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
-W. C. Fields
:beer:

A pessimist is man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
- George Bernard Shaw (again.)

A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary

"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."
-Mark Twain

“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will”
-Antonio Gramsci

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mahatma Gandhi