That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't deserve, precisely because he didn't deserve it--that would be true love and kindness and brotherhood. Else what's love for? If a man deserves a job, there's no virtue in giving it to him. Virtue is the giving of the undeserved.
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Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.
Just as Man developed morals and ethical behavior over thousands of years of evolution; so, too, did he invent an authority figure to enforce these behaviors - God.
When greed transcends rationale, morality becomes irrelevant.
Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i'm Dreamer.
I think nothing is good, I really think it is.
... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.
No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.
I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence
I am a shadow. I walk the wet roads under the dim light of the pale lamps, in the darkest hour of the cold dull nights.I walk past the silent graveyard of the dead memories, towards the city of chaos plagued with gloom.I do not exist, but in the eyes of the shattered souls. In the chapter of an old book. In the poem. In the smile of a wrecked and in the tear of a broken spirit.Listen me in the songs told in the times long forgotten.Search for me in the churchs and temples, bars and brothels,pitch black nights and the colorless days.Dive down in your deepest part of your soul. And you will find my home.I have many faces but I have no face of my own. I am a shadow.
Pets reflect you like mirrors. When you are happy, you can see your dog smiling and when you are sad, your cat cries.
We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose and intention of their lives. What do they demand of life and wish to achieve in it? The answer to this can hardly be in doubt. They strive for happiness; they want to become happy and to remain so. This endeavor has two sides, a positive and a negative aim. It aims, on the one hand, at an absence of pain and unpleasure, and, on the other, at the experiencing of strong feelings of pleasure. In its narrower sense the word 'happiness' only relates to the last. In conformity with this dichotomy in his aims, man's activity develops in two directions, according as it seeks to realize _ in the main, or even exclusively _ the one or the other of these aims.
Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man of action pursuing practical goals of personal happiness and wealth or the philosophic man who lives in a world of theoretical and metaphysical ideas? We ascribe the value quotient to our lives by making decisions that we score as either valid or invalid based upon our personal ethics and how we think and behave.
We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.
I should be grateful to the knife that__ curing me for being so sharp.
At times it is so enjoyable to mire your neighbor into the filth you already got stuck in long ago!
They always act this way: push those who are falling.
What is the point of living if we are going to die anyway? What difference does it make if it__ going to happen now or later? All we have to do is to take a step and jump off; that will resolve all problems, answer all questions at a time. And what if we are already flying down? We have jumped off, _ perhaps, right after the birth, _ not even knowing about it! The ground is already near; we just have the last moment to live and finally realize we are already dead for a long time.