The Open Mind Exchange: INSERT OBLIGATORY NEW YEAR REFERENCE HERE

Thursday, January 2, 2014

INSERT OBLIGATORY NEW YEAR REFERENCE HERE

I've been absent from the exchange again. I apologize to my nonexistent readers. Had some health issues recently, and some other issues, but I am still alive and I at least intend to be more diligent about posting here. Note that I do not resolve to be more diligent. Happy 2014. May its splendor outshine its predecessor.

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"To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole."

-Baruch Spinoza

"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."

-Baruch Spinoza

"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."

-Baruch Spinoza

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

-Soren Kierkegaard

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."

-Soren Kierkegaard

"While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."

-Eugene V. Debs

"Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong."

-H.L. Mencken

"Even cohabitation has been corrupted—by marriage."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man."

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children."

-Caitlin Upton

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

-Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

-Franz Kafka

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

-Ernest Hemingway