What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. –Leo Tolstoy
It is easier to be gigantic than to be beautiful. –Nietsche (1844 – 1900)
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. –Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
What society thinks of as reality is the hypnosis of social conditioning, an induced fiction in which we are all collectively participating. –Deepak Chopra
Update April 26, 2023: still waiting for results of yesterday’s MRI.
How close are we to the brink of something? Or how close to a shore? Electrical essences in the basement! Do you realize how much things have changed in the past two centuries?
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)