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When people are treated like a product, they become obsessed with materialism. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#materialism #obssession #life

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment. ↗

— David Marusek

#biology #consciousness #sentience #life

The good die young, but I have been spared to build myself up so that I may end my life as good as gold. The senior dead will be proud of me.... I will join the Y.M.C.A. of the immortals. Only, in this very hour, I may be missing eternity. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#senior-dead #y-m-c-a-of-the-immortals #life

In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises. ↗

— Wade Davis

#memories #past #present #promises #west

The social world of Ibsen’s plays is greatly restricted, enclosed in a narrow frame, cut off by the very geography of Norway; the long, dark winters make for social repetition…Everyone else you know is right there, so to speak. This small-town life has moral consequences always; the players live with the threat of trouble over the most petty matters. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#life

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day. ↗

— Adam Sedgwick

#day #material #materialism #philosophy #present

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#find #forget #literature #me #pleaded

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#happiness #love #love

We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations. ↗

— Brother Lawrence

#god #practicing-the-presence-of-god #faith

I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ↗

— James Baldwin

#patriotism #protest #love