Андрей Рязанов

The idea that my pleasure or my taste, or anybody's pleasure or taste is worth more than any life is ludicrous and it's immoral - Sandra Higgins Absence makes the heart grow fonder. A person who recognizes in all beings his own inmost and true self must also regard the infinite suffering of all beings as his own and takes on themself the pain of the whole world - Schopenhauer Best of all for mortal beings is never to have been born at all. Nor ever to have set eyes on the bright light of the sun. -Theognis of Megara, Greek Elegiac Poetry 6th century BC If ye unto your sons would prove, By act how dearly them ye love, Then every voice of wisdom joins, To bid you leave them in your loins. Abul ʿAla Al-Maʿarri Do not unjustly eat fish the water has given up, And do not desire as food the flesh of slaughtered animals, Or the white milk of mothers who intended its pure draught for their young, not noble ladies. And do not grieve the unsuspecting birds by taking eggs; for injustice is the worst of crimes. And spare the honey which the bees get industriously from the flowers of fragrant plants; For they did not store it that it might belong to others, Nor did they gather it for bounty and gifts. I washed my hands of all this; and wish that I Perceived my way before my hair went gray! Abul ʿAla Al-Maʿarri “It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer” Arthur Schopenhauer Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth. -Al-Maʿarri "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known" from Carl Sagan "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" from the same guy, and so on "You start out stealing songs, then you're robbing liquor stores, and selling crack and running over schoolkids with your car" from What.cd "I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." from Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Conversations with Aurora in Le Genou de Claire. (cont. in O sebe)