The mark of mediocrity, the expression of vulgarity that is printed on the vast majority of faces, properly depends
from the fact that in them the rigid subordination of their knowledge to their will is visible...
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...the robust chain that binds them to each other,
and the consequent impossibility of conceiving things otherwise than in relation to the will and its ends. #Schopenhauer
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Yes, but a person can do what they will but they cannot will what they will
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We could say, stretching things a bit, that character doesn't change so forget about human progress...
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What I am currently observing is more like human regression
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Things cannot get better but they can get worse... That's why pessimists at least they can "sadly" say they were right :)
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And, that's what it's all about, being able to say "I told you so" at the moment of being vaporized in the blinding white light of nuclear annihilation
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