Source: Life, the Universe and Everything
Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2uRv8ZE_Tc&feature=related,
“Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you stand.”
Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
“Man as an observer is becoming completely alienated from himself as a being.”
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
Context: The relationship to the world that the modern science fostered and shaped now appears to have exhausted its potential. It is increasingly clear that, strangely, the relationship is missing something. It fails to connect with the most intrinsic nature of reality and with natural human experience. It is now more of a source of disintegration and doubt than a source of integration and meaning. It produces what amounts to a state of schizophrenia: Man as an observer is becoming completely alienated from himself as a being.
The Last Lecture (2008)
Variant: And he put his arm around my shoulders and we went for a little walk and he said, Randy, it’s such a shame that people perceive you as so arrogant. Because it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish in life. What a hell of a way to word “you’re being a jerk.” [laughter] Right? He doesn’t say you’re a jerk. He says people are perceiving you this way and he says the downside is it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish.
“Fishing is a jerk at one end of a line waiting for a jerk at the other end of a line.”
The A-Z of Absolutely Everything (1990)
2000s, 2001, Cynthia McKinney's Last Stand (2001)
How Twitter radicals are controlling corporate America (2019)
