This is why we are consciously relieved when we turn to reading after being occupied with our own thoughts. But, in reading, our head is, however, really only the arena of some one else’s thoughts. And so it happens that the person who reads a great deal—that is to say, almost the whole day, and …
The Euthanasia Clinics are not the only way to buy your own death, however. There are the Assassination Clubs as well, and these have been growing in popularity. A person who wants to die, but is too afraid to go through with it himself, joins the Assassination Club in his census zone for a relatively …
So many of us have become like children again. It’s not that we make an effort, you understand, or that anyone is really conscious of it. But when hope disappears, when you find that you have given up hoping for the possibility of hope, you tend to fill the empty spaces with dreams, little childlike …
There is one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest-whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories- comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer. And …
The hand of an acid attack victim hangs from a bed during a therapy session at a secure shelter outside Phnom Penh run by the Cambodia Acid Survivors Charity. 7 July 2010. Reuters. Our World Now 4.
Cuando se lucha contra monstruos hay que tener cuidado de no convertirse en mostruo uno mismo. Si hundes demasiado tiempo tu mirada en el abismo, el abismo acaba por penetrar en ti.
An awareness of one’s own mortality is not necessarily accompanied by a corresponding sense of maturity. John Kinsella is, to all outward appearances, a mature man, but he is precise about how old he feels:’10.’ I laugh. ‘Seriously, I really don’t feel as though my mentality had changed at all in the last 50 odd …
El Gobierno, trasponiendo una directiva comunitaria, ha regulado el sueldo de los banqueros tratando de evitar incentivos perversos que animen a los directivos a asumir riesgos que pongan en peligro las entidades. Tardía reforma de un aspecto -los emolumentos de los más altos ejecutivos- que ha causado alarma social a los perdedores de la crisis …
Whenever we present our arguments to other people we usually make out that our logic is such that everyone must agree with us. (‘Be reasonable. See it my way.’) After all, our private logic is always logical to us. This is why no politician is ever a liar. In your logic and my logic he …
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, All things to us; but in the course of time, Through seeking we may learn, and know things better. But as for certain truth, no man has known it, Nor will he know it; neither of the gods, Nor yet of the things of which I speak. …