Comment on unreasonable people

Ryleigh 2022-09-28 21:15:47

Trapped in their own ideas, and can not change.
Killing is only about increasing self-experience and awareness of the world.
Under the surface of repeated reflection, what really drives him is the most primitive force.
The desire to kill, the fear of death.
When he was asking what the world meant to him, he was trapped in his own lust.
A person who appears to be deep and powerful is extremely fragile inside.
Thoughts that seem distant and profound are in fact empty and powerless to change.
Knowledge, thinking, and experience did not give him strength, and
when he followed his heart, he had given up the power of thinking.
No control over one's own body, no control over one's own desires.
To be meaninglessly immersed in the experience of the body, as if making one's life wonderful is the only purpose.
How is this different from those who haven't thought about it?
Pain and pleasure became the only themes.
Everything can be discussed in earnest, and how to become a better person never seems to be a topic.
The farther one thinks, the more trapped in oneself.
If all the questions have not been asked: how to transform the world, how to transform oneself to better transform the world, then thinking is only subject to oneself.
It cannot go beyond personal pleasure and pain, nor can it go beyond the personal feeling of powerlessness facing the world.

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Irrational Man quotes

  • [first lines]

    Abe: [narrating] Kant said human reason is troubled by questions that it cannot dismiss, but also cannot answer. Okay, so, what are we talking about here? Morality? Choice? The randomness of life? Aesthetics? Murder?

    Jill: I think Abe was crazy from the beginning. Was it from stress? Was it anger? Was he disgusted by what he saw as life's never-ending suffering? Or was he simply bored by the meaninglessness of day-to-day existence? He was so damn interesting. And different. And a good talker. And he could always cloud the issue with words.

    Abe: Where to begin? You know, the existentialists feel nothing happens until you hit absolute rock bottom. Well, let's say that when I went to teach at Braylin College, emotionally, I was at Zabriskie Point. Of course, my reputation, or should I say a reputation, preceded me.

  • Abe Lucas: Jill had been right in her appraisal of me. I was teetering on the brink of some kind of breakdown, unable to deal with my feelings of anger, frustration, futility. They say that drowning is a painless way to go.