правила жизни
08:00 | 07-08-2011 | Journalism, Metaphysics | 1 Comment
Генри Льюис Менкен все-таки очень хороший, очень:
18. My belief is that happiness is necessarily transient. The natural state of a reflective man is one of depression. The world is a botch. Women can make men perfectly happy, but they seldom know how to do it. They make too much effort: they overlook the powerful effect of simple amiability. Women are also the cause of the worst kind of unhappines.
19. I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.
эсквайровским до этого списка и на цыпочках не допрыгнуть.
[…] или вот еще о религии: I am completely devoid of religious feeling. All religions seem ridiculous to me, and in bad taste. I do not believe in the immortality of the soul, nor in the soul. Ecclesiastics seem to me to be simply men who get their livings by false pretenses. Like all rogues, they are occasionally very amusing. […]