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Casey A. Childers
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in Oxnard, CA, The United States
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March 2007
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“Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.”
― Poke the Box
― Poke the Box
“believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.”
― Poke the Box
― Poke the Box
“For Leopardi, unhappy hedonist that he was, what is unknown is always more attractive than what is known; hope and imagination are the only consolations for the disappointments and sorrows of experience. Man therefore projects his desire into infinity and feels pleasure only when he is able to imagine that this pleasure has no end.”
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
“In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes and Kant: the relationship between the idea of infinity as absolute space and absolute time, and our empirical knowledge of space and time.”
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
“The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.”
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
