Quotes | High Existence

Quotes | High Existence

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

Seneca

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool."

Richard Feynman

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"I read something by Carl Jung, at about this point, that helped me understand what I was experiencing. It was Jung who formulated the concept of 'persona': the mask that 'feigned individuality.' Adoption of such a mask, according to Jung, allowed each of us — and those around us — to believe that we were authentic.

Jung said:

'When we analyse the persona we strip off the mask, and discover that what seemed to be individual is at bottom collective; in other words, that the persona was only a mask of the collective psyche.

Fundamentally the persona is nothing real: it is a [â¦]"

Jordan Peterson

"I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking."

Terence McKenna

"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

Kurt Vonnegut

"“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”"

David Foster Wallace

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

Mark Twain

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."

Richard Feynman

"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery.
The politician will be only too happy to abdicate
in favor of his image, because the image will
be much more powerful than he could ever be."

Marshall McLuhan

"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a Ride!"

Hunter S. Thompson

"You don't have to take drugs to hallucinate; improper language can fill your world with phantoms and spooks of many kinds."

Robert A. Wilson

"Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome."

John Green

"I don’t know how to fix the system, but I am pretty sure that one of the ingredients is kindness. I think of kindness not only as the moral virtue of volunteering at a soup kitchen or even of living your life to help as many other people as possible, but also as an epistemic virtue. Epistemic kindness is kind of like humility. Kindness to ideas you disagree with. Kindness to positions you want to dismiss as crazy and dismiss with insults and mockery. Kindness that breaks you out of your own arrogance, makes you realize the truth is more [â¦]"

Scott Alexander