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“Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple”

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Mark Rowlands, born in 1962, is a renowned writer whose works span across philosophy, ethics, and political science. He is known for his profound thoughts and unique perspectives. more

“Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing.”

Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man

“Suppose the hellfire of the orthodox really existed! We have no assurance that it does not! It seems incredible, but many incredible things are true. We do not know that God is not as cruel as a Spanish inquisitor. Suppose, then, He is! If, after Death, we wicked ones were shovelled into a furnace of fire- we should have to burn. There would be no redress. It would simply be the Divine Order of things. It is outrageous that we should be so helpless and so dependent on any one- even God.”

Ifs Knows Should Doe Seems Would Be Order Fire Divine Should Have Incredibles Wicked Dependent Orthodox Helpless Assurance Outrageous After Death Furnaces Redress Divine Order

Author:W.N.P. Barbellion

“From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.”

Should Mind White Rooms Steps Hair Healthy Singing Window Skins Fellows Drawing Shoulders Firm Gentleman Broads Mud Sunny Rosy Always Smile White Hair

Book:The Journal of a Disappointed Man

Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man

“Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.”

Moments Reality Past Views Happened Events Happenings Diminish Historic

Book:The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Source: The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

“Honest error may play prologue to wonders.”

May Play Wonder Honest Errors Prologue

Book:Death Watch

Source: Death Watch

“There were some days that deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates and a warm, energetic companion. Today was without question one of those days.”

Today Birth Bed Hot Boxes Warm Companion Chocolate Energetic Brandy Box Of Chocolates One Of Those Days

Book:Trace of Magic

Source: Trace of Magic

“There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness of Creation, God had seen fit to introduce soiling, twisting, rampaging, Man.”

Men Made Wonder Tree Creation Fit Fragile Introducing Frozen Feathers Mist Brilliance Spun

Book:The Wilding

Source: The Wilding

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