'Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.'
Not really an aphorism but more a comment: with so much fake news, GenAI, photoshop, deep fakes, partisan news, state sponsored misinformation, etc. I hope philosophy can give us techniques for deciding what to believe.
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Marcus Aurelius.
Oprah Winfrey
Dave
-Sleaford Mods.
In our beliefs there's "lie"
In our business there's "sin"
In our bodies there's "die"
And Samuel Beckett said:
’Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Confucius famously said….”Go to bed with itchy arse’ole…..wake up with smelly finger”.
So who’s gonna watch you die.
Ben Gibbard 2005
You can always cut more off, you can't stick any back on .
- Karen next door’s hallway wall, 2023
the less you need the happier you will be (one for all those concerned with status)
pain is inevitable; suffering is optional