Sorrow

For in much wisdom is much grief, And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. Ecclesiastes 1:18

Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood

The truth is I don’t want him watching me while I eat. I don’t want him to see my hunger. If you have a need and they find it out, they will use it against you. The best way is to stop wanting anything. P40

Truth – Albert Camus – The Fall

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. p 120

Metaphysics, let the thinking begin

Metaphysics is “the ultimate science of being and knowing and deals with the first principles of things, including such concepts as being, substance, essence, time, space, cause and identity”[i].

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[i] Oxford English Dictionary

Truth is non violence – Mahatma Gandhi

All Men Are Brothers

This is my house

Howard Beale is MAD

Crimes and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most….

“What’s the most offensive is not their lying- one can always forgive lying- lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth- what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying….

John Steinbeck, journal entry, 1938

“In every bit of honest writing in the world…there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.”

 

Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence – Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, and conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power. And as such it is recommended where ever it is preached.