It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, it is their social existence that determines their consciousness.
—Preface to the Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx
It was an ending I could neither believe nor understand; it was stalled there and I lived it a thousand times again, hoping it might somehow change. It never did. What was I supposed to learn?
—Illusion, Richard Bach
On the Road trailer
He was reaching his Tao decisions in the simplest direct way. What’s your road, man?- holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It’s an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.
—On the Road, Jack Kerouac
This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
—On the Road, Jack Kerouac
He no longer cared about anything(as before) but now he also ‘cared about anything in principle’; that is to say, it was all the same to him and he belonged to the world and there was nothing he could do about it. He stopped me in the middle of the street.
—On the Road, Jack Kerouac
We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move. And we moved.
—On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The order to love thy neighbour as thyself is too extreme and too strenuous to be obeyed, as is the hard-to-interpret instruction to love others “as I have loved you”. Humans are not so constituted as to care for others as much as themselves: The thing simply cannot be done(as any intelligent “creator” would well understand from saying his own design)
—God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens
God did not create man in his own image. Evidently it was the other way about.
—God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens
The existence of God can only be “demonstrated” by faith
—God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens
