Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.
It's easier to get over a lost body than a lost soul.
We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.
What makes most of us who we are, most of all, is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.
We live in a time when people are afraid of beauty, because beauty passes; you can't hang on to it. And even if you see something or someone beautiful, the next time you hear it, it sounds different. So you can't cling to beauty; beauty passes and when that passes, you realize you pass too, and you will die. And that's why people cry at a beautiful view, a beautiful lecture, a beautiful painting, a new baby.
Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.
Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.