Sympathy For The Devil

Are madness and greatness two sides of the same coin?

“That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end lies sanity it is human nature to veer towards the madness end.” 
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

I am, I am, I am

"Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?"

-Iliad and Odyssey

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieve it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
by Dylan Thomas

The Happiest And Most Grateful

More than ever.

The Best Argument Against Atheism

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Extremely Quiet And Incredibly Close

A Day in The Life Of Street Children

Where there is darkness, there is also light. Where there is despair, there is also hope. Where there is injustice, there is also innocence.

Whose responsibility are they?

No man is an island,

Entire of itself,

Every man is a piece of the continent,

A part of the main.

If a clod be washed away by the sea,

Europe is the less.

As well as if a promontory were.

As well as if a manor of thy friend's

Or of thine own were:

Any man's death diminishes me,

Because I am involved in mankind,

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; 

It tolls for thee. 

John Donne

Disconnect.

Because when it comes to technology, to labor-saving devices; never was one invented that saved anyone a minute's work.

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” 
― Karl Marx

"As increased industrial efficiency makes it possible to procure the means of livelihood with less labor, the energies of the industrious members of the community are bent to the compassing of a higher result in conspicuous expenditure, rather than slackened to a more comfortable pace. 

...this want ...

is indefinitely expansible, after the manner commonly imputed in economic theory to higher or spiritual wants.

 It is owing chiefly to the presence of this element in the standard of living that J. S. Mill was able to say that "hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."

-Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899).

She Wants To Be A Dancer, Not A Soldier

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. 

Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. 

And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. 

What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. 

That's all I do all day. 

I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. 

I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”

― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye