I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
quote by Eugenio Montale
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Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
quote by George Santayana
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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
quote by George Eliot
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Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana in Winds of Doctrine (1913)
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Holding On With Wishes To Experience This
Altrhough...
They're slipping with a gripping,
To a bottomless pit.
With an ignorance addicted unresisted.
And,
Holding on and wishing to experience it...
Are the ones who practice posing,
In a darkened abyss.
With a proving that an ignorance for them is bliss.
The people of today...
Are crazed with beliefs.
And refusing to release,
All delusions they've been feeding.
The people of today...
Are crazed with beliefs,
That the only life to live,
Is the one of deceit.
Holding on with wishes to experience this,
Darkened abyss...
With a proving that an ignorance for them is bliss.
Holding on with wishes to experience this,
Darkened abyss...
With a proving that an ignorance for them is bliss.
The people of today...
Are crazed with beliefs.
And refusing to release,
All delusions they've been feeding.
The people of today...
Are crazed with beliefs,
That the only life to live,
Is the one of deceit.
Holding on with wishes to experience this,
Darkened abyss...
With a proving that an ignorance for them is bliss.
They keep on holding onto to wishes to experience this,
Darkened abyss...
With a proving that an ignorance for them is bliss.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer
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A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
quote by Chauncey Depew
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Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
quote by Robert Oppenheimer
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Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
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An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.
quote by Doug Larson
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Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw in An Unsocial Socialist (1887)
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
quote by Leonard Cohen
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Lend a Hand
The abyss is acceptable for its serenity
Losing in the distant depths of acidity;
Ghosts are hidden from these pipes,
Inside those wrongs are some types
In a world of whirling water,
Fond of ghosts always doing manslaughter.
Hotter the sun is shining in this limewater
To never take in by breath, or be hotter.
The hidden losses shall repel us,
Inside my brain is graveness.
The abyss will gratefully occupy the words
Then to work, then to pull and lend afterwards.
poem by Naveed Akram
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Judged (I Believe)
Originally posted in 2008, however some issues occured and all my poetry was deleted, however I had a copy of it stored and am reposting it now
Do me wrong, and ill do you right
Punch me in the face, and ill still be alright
Do me wrong and say what you will
Cos I know and I believe
That These folks will be judged someday
I believe you'll be judged one day
Stab my back, and ill scratch yours right
Screw me over and Ill still be alright
Screw me over, stab my back
Cos I know and I believe
That everyone is judged someday
I believe you'll be judged one day
Don't Believe in God, cos I like his teachin'
Don't worship the son, cos I hate their preachin'
But I believe I'll be judged someday
I believe I'll be judged someday
poem by Electric Tripp
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As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.
quote by Rahm Emanuel
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Gip See - 0730
I find no tomorrow triumphant for mankind, as understood today,
which wastes the day, would borrow from the Future, inclined
to escrow sorrow from collective mind. Judgment swings
between greed and ignorance, to sway both ends hollow,
While contradictions waiting in the wings
smile for Fate, man wiles his lease away
awaiting hypothetical release declined
in future 'tense' whence it would seem to follow
that however fine the robin sings
tomorrow may find Man stung by Time's dard,
which only close companion louse, house broken, will dismay.
(28 April 2012)
poem by Jonathan Robin
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Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
quote by Robert A. Heinlein
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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
quote by Tom Bodett
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The Abyss
To test the 'Stare into the Abyss' bit,
Toroweap Point is a perfect place-
Hang your legs over a volcanic 3,000-foot drop,
And stare anywhere you like.
If you are firm in your commitments,
The Abyss will free you;
If you have low imagination,
The Abyss will drive you away;
If you are a great philosopher, poet, scientist, or musician,
The Abyss will nestle in your heart;
If you have drunk far too much wine,
You will become one with the Abyss.
poem by Stan Petrovich
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