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“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.” —Truman Capote/Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/1948/

“Five minutes after birth, they decide your name, religion, nationality and sect. And you spend the rest of your life defending what you did not choose.”- Arthur Schopenhauer

“What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

“Yes, it looks like this country is in for another one. The idiot concepts of our leaders are endless. It all makes me sick straight on through. Nothing has been learned from the past. Just new bodies, new waste, new hell. Always a new excuse for more war…yes, I am sick with it all. It sits in my gut churning and they go on ahead.”~ Bukowski

“The entire quest is for acceptance. You run from pillar to post for being accepted as you are. This quest ends only when you realize that the most important thing in life is to accept yourself totally, wholly and completely. Unfortunately, that is a long drawn out process and it takes time to reach that level. However, once you reach that stage, you are at entire peace with yourself.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra

"To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe."---Sartre

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“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”― Karl Popper

"As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people... On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."-- H.L Mencken

"Every theory of consciousness on offer is a bit insane… Physicalism asks you to believe qualia are either fully describable as structure or they don’t exist (whatever that means), property dualism asks you to believe non-physical properties float alongside matter with no intelligible causal story, cosmopsychism asks you to believe the universe is one giant mind, and panpsychism asks you to believe electrons have some form of inner life. The hard problem doesn’t have a ‘sane’ solution!"--Nino Kadic

(Mar 17, 2026 07:21 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]"Every theory of consciousness on offer is a bit insane… Physicalism asks you to believe qualia are either fully describable as structure or they don’t exist (whatever that means), property dualism asks you to believe non-physical properties float alongside matter with no intelligible causal story, cosmopsychism asks you to believe the universe is one giant mind, and panpsychism asks you to believe electrons have some form of inner life. The hard problem doesn’t have a ‘sane’ solution!"--Nino Kadic

Eric Schwitzgebel once said something similar, but in the context of his broader "Crazyism" thesis.