Anyone who fights with monsters should take care that he does not in the process become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“The idea of good and evil has nothing to do with religion or a mystic conscience. It is a natural need of animal races. And when founders of religions, philosophers, and moralists tell us of divine or metaphysical entities, they are only recasting what each ant, each sparrow practices in its little society. Is this useful to society? Then it is good. Is this hurtful? Then it is bad.”
— Peter Kropotkin, Anarchist Morality
"Nostalgia is truly one of the great human weaknesses, second only to the neck"
-Dwight K Schrute, The Office, S9E7
i think about this scene all the time
let’s take a trip
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We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices.
Bertrand Russell, The ABC of Relativity (via philosophybits)
This isn’t anything anyone can’t logically deduce, Russell must’ve been a lonely man.
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