9 - 2012 | Polojko's Blog!

Earned

Love, respect, trust… can only be earned, not demanded.

Introspection

Same as with psychology, the ultimate limitation of human science is that the observer is simultaneously a part of the object of observation, hence it can’t be objective and/or possible.

3D

The best 3D screen out there – your window.

And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles; he has not lived long—he has existed long. For what if you should think that that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about.

– Seneca, On the shortness of life

Procrastination

Procrastination is an unconscious wish to prolong life.

Wise

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. – Tobias Smollett

Jail

Jail, even with golden bars, is still a jail.

Argument

An argument for the afterlife: if this life is all there is, it would be quite meaningless to live. Then again, who said that it shouldn’t be?

Job

I still can’t believe that people are willing to pay me for what I do.

Price

Everyone has a price, everyone is sold, sooner or later, if the price is high enough.

Month: September 2012