“To achieve its diabolical ends, Communism needs to control a population devoid of religious and national feeling, and this entails the destruction of faith and nationhood.” #Solzhenitsyn

“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.” #Solzhenitsyn

“To do evil, a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good.” #Solzhenitsyn

How the idealization of romantic relationships causes breakups.

Carl Jung – Anyone who refuses to experience life commits partial suicide.

Søren Kierkegaard – The measure of a human being is how long and to what degree he can bear to be alone.

Forever circling back to this beautiful passage by Carl Jung.

“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.” ― Thomas Sowell

"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks

First, a rise in sensationalist rhetoric about how the other political side poses an imminent existential threat - "desperate times" Next, a rise in rhetoric about violence being justified to stop the existential thread - "desperate measures" Then, a rise in assassinations.

It’s vaguely funny, in a twisted way, how Bluesky originally pretended “trust and safety” was about violent rhetoric. We were all supposed to believe this in 2020 about Twitter, Facebook, etc, etc

Alan Watts... man.

Some of the best marriage advice I've ever heard came from Joanne Woodward about being married to Paul Newman: "When somebody asks her why their marriage worked, she said, 'There's my ego, and there's his ego, and there's our ego. And when we're both in service of OUR ego, we

Everyone needs to hear this…