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"Deserves got nothing to do with it" - Unforgiven
“For why does Fortune with her fickle hand
deal out such changing lots?
The hurtful penalty is due to crime,
but falls upon the sinless head.
Depraved men rest at ease on thrones aloft,
and by their unjust lot can spurn beneath their hurtful heel
the necks of virtuous men.
Beneath obscuring shadows lies bright virtue hid;
the just man bears the unjust's infamy.
They suffer not for forsworn oaths,
they suffer not for crimes glazed over with their lies.
But when their will is to put forth their strength,
with triumph they subdue the mightiest kings
whom peoples in their thousands fear.
O You, who weaves the bonds of Nature's self,
look down upon this pitiable Earth!
Mankind is no base part of this great work,
and we are tossed on Fortune's wave."
Boethius
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made on the fate of those who suffer by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." Herman Melville
“Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know it and feel safe.”
― Primo Levi
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
"The role of luck in our lives appears decisive...this poses a problem"[for the way humans traditionally speak and think about social structure] -Sam Harris
"Verily this is the very crown of my misfortunes, that men’s
opinions for the most part look not to real merit, but to
the event; and only recognize foresight where Fortune has
crowned the issue with her approval. Whereby it comes to
pass that reputation is the first of all things to abandon the
unfortunate. [...] I will just say that the final burden which misfortune heaps on her victims, is that some accusation is made against them, they are believed to have deserved all that they suffer."
Boethius
"Deserves got nothing to do with it" - Unforgiven
“For why does Fortune with her fickle hand
deal out such changing lots?
The hurtful penalty is due to crime,
but falls upon the sinless head.
Depraved men rest at ease on thrones aloft,
and by their unjust lot can spurn beneath their hurtful heel
the necks of virtuous men.
Beneath obscuring shadows lies bright virtue hid;
the just man bears the unjust's infamy.
They suffer not for forsworn oaths,
they suffer not for crimes glazed over with their lies.
But when their will is to put forth their strength,
with triumph they subdue the mightiest kings
whom peoples in their thousands fear.
O You, who weaves the bonds of Nature's self,
look down upon this pitiable Earth!
Mankind is no base part of this great work,
and we are tossed on Fortune's wave."
Boethius
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made on the fate of those who suffer by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." Herman Melville
“Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know it and feel safe.”
― Primo Levi
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
"The role of luck in our lives appears decisive...this poses a problem"[for the way humans traditionally speak and think about social structure] -Sam Harris
"Verily this is the very crown of my misfortunes, that men’s
opinions for the most part look not to real merit, but to
the event; and only recognize foresight where Fortune has
crowned the issue with her approval. Whereby it comes to
pass that reputation is the first of all things to abandon the
unfortunate. [...] I will just say that the final burden which misfortune heaps on her victims, is that some accusation is made against them, they are believed to have deserved all that they suffer."
Boethius
