"My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle. I am quite aware that for any organization to reach its goals, one man must do the thinking and directing and generally bear the responsibility. But the led must not be coerced, they must be able to choose their leader. In my opinion, an autocratic system of coercion soon degenerates; force attracts men of low morality... The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence -- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature." - Albert Einstine
It took me almost 7 years to finally realize what I needed in life. From the time I left High School, and got my first job until now. Everything before that was childhood dalliance and never really amounted to much. As an adult it's enough for me to continue to enrich my mind, and become the best philosopher that I can be. I'll be getting out of the Army next year, and that's all that matters. Then I can finally be an adult, free, capable, and happily married. Everything else is just minor details. I'll find a job, doesn't matter what kind, so long as I can provide for my family. In my own time I will devote myself to reading brilliance, and developing theories of my own. Like I said, everything else is just minor details.
Super Awesome Mogwai Video. Makes me sad, somber, happy, and hopeful at the same time.
Hey Montana - Eve 6
Hey Montana take your daughter back,
From the bathrooms of Angeles Vall.
She believes in destiny
Her names always misspelled
Waitressing to pay the rent
Drinks to quell the smell
Of people breathing way too close
Folks who don't mean well
No one sees the color of your eyes
No one sees you smile
No one knows the secrets that you hide
No one sees you cry
She parks her car two blocks away, from apartment 15A
She walks with somber in her step and scores along the way
Blue's your hue you tiny thing
Dropping patrons wine
Singing to you're own sad song
Two feet stuck in the mire
No one sees the color of your eyes
No one sees you smile
No one knows the secrets that you hide
No one sees you cry
Hey Montana take your daughter back
It's clear she needs your care
These bustling streets are icy veins of a beast who snuffs her prayer
No one sees the color of your eyes
No one sees you smile
No one knows the secrets that you hide
No one sees you cry
No one sees you cry
No one sees you
Hey Montana take your daughter back
Hey Montana take your daughter back
Please Montana take your daughter back
Hey Montana take your daughter back
Her bones and the truth show through
Sometimes I like being sad. It makes the times I'm happy more meaningful, and enjoyable.
The best part of the entire Matrix Trilogy, IMO.
And it's a refreshing sound to me.
I kind of feel the same way about being sad -- but not even for the contrast of being happy. I just think it feels kind of sobering. I feel very crystalline.