Schopenhauer, will to life
Although we think that we are the agents behind our quest for love, we are really only the instruments of a higher power that controls us and uses us for its purposes.
This higher power is the will to life, and its purpose is nothing more than existence itself, the mere continuation of life. There is no purpose to sex other than procreation; and there is no purpose to procreation other than the survival of the species. The will to life could not care less for the happiness of the individuals who serve it. Each individual procreates for the sake of the species; and once it performs its reproductive task, it is discarded and left to die.
Power for man, as the genius of Hegel saw, is the ability to support contradictions, nothing less. It is amazing how we misread reality, how we see power in all the wrong places, all the wrong forms, forms which have nothing to do with our distinctive problems. We think we see power in the people with sure beliefs, unshakable convictions, smug self-confidence. Yet these are psychological weaknesses on a planet which is fluid and full of surprises. We think we see power in the ability to dominate and coerce others. Yet history has taught us that such power inevitably makes a slave of and destroys the manipulator whether it be a man or a nation. We think we see power in numbers, in the deafening chorus of mass enthusiasms and the solid wall of shared opinions. Yet history daily teaches us that nature has no respect for even unanimous misperception of reality, and she has the coldest equanimity for the enthusiasms that carry whole populations into rapture. Nature could only respect the power that typifies a nature, and for man this must be the power to live and endure the paradoxes of his own.
Real Estate Adam Melchor
I still find your hair in my bed and my clothes
In my mouth, in my nose, oh who knows
If you'll still be there when it's all said and done
Or if I'll just find less from now on
Every time I wonder how I'd carry on without you
I'm running out of real estate
Tryna make all the right moves
I don't wanna hesitate
I would bet the house on you
You, you
I still have no windows in my room or my halls
I was hoping I could look through yours
Sitting in a chair next to your front door
As I watch you do your makeup on the floor
Every time I wonder how I'd carry on without you
I'm running out of real estate
Tryna make all the right moves
I don't wanna hesitate
I…
Greek theatres
1. In the theatres of the Greeks, these same rules of construction are not to be followed in all respects. First, in the circle at the bottom where the Roman has four triangles, the Greek has three squares with their angles touching the line of circumference. The square whose side is nearest to the "scaena," and cuts off a segment of the
When I should be asleep to mine own voice In telling thee how much thy love's my dream, I find me listening to myself, the noise Of my words othered in my hearing them. Yet wonder not: this is the poet's soul. I could not tell thee well of how I love, Loved I not less by knowing it, were all My self my love and no thought love to prove. What consciousness makes more by consciousness, It makes less, for it makes it less itself, My sense of love could not my love rich-dress Did it not for it spend love's own love-pelf. Poet's love's this (as in these words I prove thee):
" I love my love for thee more than I love thee." 
Fernando Pessoa
Not only is there less delight in a world of little danger, but there is less humanity when we are always being treated like children.
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An indifference curve can be derived when there are two elements in every choice: 1) preferences and 2) opportunities (attainability of various goods) It is related to the former, preferences. It separates better (more preferred) bundles of goods from inferior (less preferred) bundles, providing a diagrammatic picture of how an individual ranks alternative consumption bundles.
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Political rights and equality do not guarantee economic equality. Women earn less than men, on average, in America, and the problem of the economic and social status of African American remains high on the agenda.
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In the name of defending and modernizing the Soviet Union, Stalin oversaw the starvation of millions and the shooting of three quarters of a million people in the 1930s. Stalin killed his own citizens no less efficiently than Hitler killed the citizens of other countries. Of the fourteen million people deliberately murdered in the bloodlands between 1933 and 1945, a third belong in the Soviet account.
In addition to such well-known names as Einstein and Freud, about 20 per cent of all Nobel Prize laureates in science have been Jews, though Jews constitute less than 0.2 per cent of the world’s population.
