I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.
The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is. . . to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.
The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem.
Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner,. . . for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.
Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.
For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive an order whose central function is inhibitory of the individual's interests.
The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.
He kissed me, so gently at first that I melted. I pressed close against him as the kiss deepened, curling my arms around his neck and tumbling into pure sensation. The softness of his hair as I ran my fingers through it; his arms hands on my skin, caressing me. It felt so, so good. I'd been afraid that I'd never have this again--this sense of being so achingly alive that every nerve ending was on fire.
Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority.
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.