Citations & Paraphrases – Page 7

Uncomfortable

You’re doing fine: but since you’ve been uncomfortable for so long, you think that something’s wrong.

– Men of a Certain Age, series

Difference

I’d rather live in a dictatorship, if everything is provided (education, social security…), than in a democracy, where, regardless of the effort, nothing is guaranteed…

(Nikola, 03/24/2011, 16:22)

Comment on a news item on b92.net site

Prostitution

There’s a form of prostitution for everybody these days – Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration

House, MD: You’re miserable. You’re so afraid that if you change, you’ll lose that something that makes you special. Being miserable doesn’t make you better than anybody else: it just makes you miserable.

Special

House, MD: If you want to be special, you’ll have to be alone.

Sorrow

According to legend, Vincent Van Gogh said, to his brother Theo: Only sorrow is forever.

Success

From the TV series “Numb3rs”: Success is not how far you’ve come, but where are you now, relative to your starting point.

Attempt

Every man is an attempt, said Hesse. An attempt of what, exactly?

What are we?

L.A.Feuerbach said that we are what we eat. G.W.F.Hegel said that we are what we think. I, however, say that we are all mortal. You decide who’s most correct here.

Yet another theory

E.H.Erikson divided life into eight linear and chronological phases, with the final, eighth phase being the most important, when one’s summarizing his or her life. Poles in that phase are Despair and Integrity. If the man in this phase is leaning towards Integrity, he can say that he didn’t live in vain. I’d like to see those who are well-adjusted while dying, unless they’re some kind of fanatics.

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