Often I tried the frightening way of "reality."

 Where things that count are profession, law, fashion, finance.
But disillusioned and freed, I flee away, alone.
To the other side, the place of dreams and blessed folly.

(Hermann Hesse)

 

 

(art by Inferior Amphibian)

 

 

“I’m a member of no party.

 I have no ideology. 

I’m a rationalist; 

I do what I can 

in the international struggle 

between science and reason,  

and the barbarism, 

superstition and stupidity 

that’s all around us.”

— Christopher Hitchens

 

 

  Silvio Vieira      

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe,

 think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

― Nikola Tesla 

 

 (art by Rin Ciné)

 

 

“When a plutocracy is disguised as a democracy,

the system is beyond corrupt.”

Suzy Kassem

 

 

 

 

 

Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
(Jim Cramer)

 

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this:

If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, 

we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. 

We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. 

The bamboozle has captured us. 

It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, 

even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. 

Once you give a charlatan power over you, 

you almost never get it back.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

 

  (art by Konstantin Antioukhin)

 

"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied;

real evil is gloomy, monotonous, 

barren, boring. 

Imaginary good is boring; 

real good is always new, 

marvelous, intoxicating." 

– Simone Weil

 

 

“I was ashamed of myself

when I realised 

life was a costume party 

and I attended with my real face”

― Franz Kafka

 

 (art by David Ribble)