#nit

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#channels #community #connects #functioning #human

Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#humanity #love #funny

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#happier #i #i do #i feel #infinitely

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#error #gained #humanity #indebted #oppression

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#feeling #i #i do #speak #want

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#community #course #faith #invaded #marriages

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#based #bass #definitely #drum #especially

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#am #became #christianity #empire #execution

For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#definitely #elegant #event #heel #i

I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#attraction #bad #bad guys #definitely #guys