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Nein: A Manifesto
Nein. A Manifesto is the brainchild of Eric Jarosinski, the self-described “failed intellectual” behind @NeinQuarterly, a “Compendium of Utopian Negation” that uses the aphoristic potential of Twitter to plumb the existential abyss of modern life — and finds it bottomless.
Nein is not no. Nein is not yes. Nein is nein.
Nein believes in nothing. Militantly.
Nein does not take questions.
Nein regrets to inform you.
Nein is not style. Nein is not syntax.
Nein does not thank you for shopping.
Nein is not the medium. Nein is not the message.
Nein says no. To a yes. That is a no.
Nein closes its eyes to your surveillance state. Your dating profile. Your dreams. And hears the sea.
Stridently hopeless and charmingly dour, Nein. A Manifesto is an irreverent philosophical investigation into the everyday that sounds the call to rediscover its strangeness. Inspired by the aphorisms of Nietzsche, Karl Kraus, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno, Jarosinski’s epigrammatic style reinvents short-form philosophy for a world doomed to distraction.
As tenets of a rather unorthodox manifesto, Jarosinski’s four-line compositions seek to illuminate our most urgent questions. And the least. The result is a compelling and thought-provoking translation of digital into print. Theory into praxis. And tragedy into farce.
Nein is not no. Nein is not yes. Nein is nein.
Nein believes in nothing. Militantly.
Nein does not take questions.
Nein regrets to inform you.
Nein is not style. Nein is not syntax.
Nein does not thank you for shopping.
Nein is not the medium. Nein is not the message.
Nein says no. To a yes. That is a no.
Nein closes its eyes to your surveillance state. Your dating profile. Your dreams. And hears the sea.
Stridently hopeless and charmingly dour, Nein. A Manifesto is an irreverent philosophical investigation into the everyday that sounds the call to rediscover its strangeness. Inspired by the aphorisms of Nietzsche, Karl Kraus, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno, Jarosinski’s epigrammatic style reinvents short-form philosophy for a world doomed to distraction.
As tenets of a rather unorthodox manifesto, Jarosinski’s four-line compositions seek to illuminate our most urgent questions. And the least. The result is a compelling and thought-provoking translation of digital into print. Theory into praxis. And tragedy into farce.
144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2015
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May 17, 2015
"I'd like to think that a depressing joke about cultural pessimism and despair has
occasionally managed to brighten someone's day."
YES.... Eric Jarosinski..... THANK YOU.... you 'did' brighten my day.
I've been in a hot pink leg cast for weeks now...mostly stuck indoors while my husband works during the day. I've got my books, iPad, and crutches at my side.
Paul, my husband, packs an ice cooler with yogurt, apples, and such .. so I don't waste away to bones
Today... being the weekend afternoon...I had a special treat.., with Paul's help.., I set up camp in the yard...on the lawn...on beach towels, and extra pillows to elevate my leg.
Your book of aphorisms kept me smiling... "brightening my day", !!!!
Eric Jarosinski's little book is witty, charming, (sometimes depressing in a 'haha' way), and just darn enjoyable...(especially while sunbathing under a tree in your own yard... sharing these gems with a partner)
A few favorites:
#How to Find Happiness:
Think of where you last saw it
See if it's still there
If it's not, ask yourself why it left
If it is, ask yourself why you didn't stay.
#Trial and Error:
In Fall: Read Kafka
In Winter: Understand Kafka
In Spring: Fall in love with Kafka
In Summer: Forget Kafka on the beach.
#Arrange Your Book:
By those who taught you love.
Those that taught you true love.
Those that taught you to love books.
And those that taught you if you if love is ever true, it's in books.
Reading this little treasure was my first introduction to Eric Jarosinski's. He calls himself a
"Failed intellectual".
Cerebral thinkers will get a kick out of this book.
Me: I just simply enjoyed it!
Thank you to Grove Atlantic - Netgalley- and Eric Jarosinski! ( it was a delight having my day 'brighter').
occasionally managed to brighten someone's day."
YES.... Eric Jarosinski..... THANK YOU.... you 'did' brighten my day.
I've been in a hot pink leg cast for weeks now...mostly stuck indoors while my husband works during the day. I've got my books, iPad, and crutches at my side.
Paul, my husband, packs an ice cooler with yogurt, apples, and such .. so I don't waste away to bones
Today... being the weekend afternoon...I had a special treat.., with Paul's help.., I set up camp in the yard...on the lawn...on beach towels, and extra pillows to elevate my leg.
Your book of aphorisms kept me smiling... "brightening my day", !!!!
Eric Jarosinski's little book is witty, charming, (sometimes depressing in a 'haha' way), and just darn enjoyable...(especially while sunbathing under a tree in your own yard... sharing these gems with a partner)
A few favorites:
#How to Find Happiness:
Think of where you last saw it
See if it's still there
If it's not, ask yourself why it left
If it is, ask yourself why you didn't stay.
#Trial and Error:
In Fall: Read Kafka
In Winter: Understand Kafka
In Spring: Fall in love with Kafka
In Summer: Forget Kafka on the beach.
#Arrange Your Book:
By those who taught you love.
Those that taught you true love.
Those that taught you to love books.
And those that taught you if you if love is ever true, it's in books.
Reading this little treasure was my first introduction to Eric Jarosinski's. He calls himself a
"Failed intellectual".
Cerebral thinkers will get a kick out of this book.
Me: I just simply enjoyed it!
Thank you to Grove Atlantic - Netgalley- and Eric Jarosinski! ( it was a delight having my day 'brighter').
February 15, 2016
The witty aphorisms contained in this little book made me laugh to the point of tears at times, and I spent a good few hours joking with a couple of old professors about the excerpts that related to their field's of study. I have to say, it was as a whole, a most agreeable little book for all of its nihilistic tendencies. Nein: A Manifestois definitively one of the best little academic stocking stuffer books I have ever had the pleasure of picking up (on par with Julie Schumancher's Dear Committee Members).
Of the witticisms contained in Nein: A Manifesto a few of my favorites were:
#ReadingList
In spring: Proust. In Paris.
In summer: Kerouac. On the road.
In fall: Sontag. In New York.
In winter: Dostoevsky. In a cold wind.
And a thin coat.
#CloseReading
Perhaps Marx is best read as a religion.
Freud as literature.
Woolf as economics.
And Nietzsche as Nietzsche.
#ConsumerConfidences
It's not you.
It's your brand.
It's not me.
It's my demographic.
(A thing I cannot say about the MIT Press Bookstore.)
#MediaTheory
Another beautiful day.
For the medium.
Another existential crisis.
For the message.
#HardCopy
No.
Print is not a waste of paper.
But yes.
A waste of words.
It was a true joy to read and share. I shall be sending the copy I have me to a friend of mine sometime this week. Some things are too wonderful to keep to ourselves.
Of the witticisms contained in Nein: A Manifesto a few of my favorites were:
#ReadingList
In spring: Proust. In Paris.
In summer: Kerouac. On the road.
In fall: Sontag. In New York.
In winter: Dostoevsky. In a cold wind.
And a thin coat.
#CloseReading
Perhaps Marx is best read as a religion.
Freud as literature.
Woolf as economics.
And Nietzsche as Nietzsche.
#ConsumerConfidences
It's not you.
It's your brand.
It's not me.
It's my demographic.
(A thing I cannot say about the MIT Press Bookstore.)
#MediaTheory
Another beautiful day.
For the medium.
Another existential crisis.
For the message.
#HardCopy
No.
Print is not a waste of paper.
But yes.
A waste of words.
It was a true joy to read and share. I shall be sending the copy I have me to a friend of mine sometime this week. Some things are too wonderful to keep to ourselves.
October 11, 2015
It was recommended by Readings' staff and was described as "wickedly funny" with a philosophical look at modern life. It is a small book of aphorisms which are philosophical, witty and some bitterly true. There is also a glossary at the end which is worth going through word by word. I mention some in here:
-Anxiety: Fear of the unknown.
-Depression: Fear of the known.
-Atheism: A religion without a prayer.
-Religion: A set of beliefs about why yours are wrong.
-Coffee: The diuretic of enlightenment.
-Consumption: Capitalism's drug of choice.
-Internet, the: A network of cables, wires and tubes connecting us all. To cables. Wires. And Tubes.
-Life: A leading cause of death.
-Peace: What everybody's fighting for.
-Science: The art of method.
-Smart phone: A device designed for working too late and dying too soon.
-Selfie: A portrait of someone we used to know. Taken by someone we used to respect.
-Weekend: The two days of the week when your alienation is all your own.
I found them very true!
-Anxiety: Fear of the unknown.
-Depression: Fear of the known.
-Atheism: A religion without a prayer.
-Religion: A set of beliefs about why yours are wrong.
-Coffee: The diuretic of enlightenment.
-Consumption: Capitalism's drug of choice.
-Internet, the: A network of cables, wires and tubes connecting us all. To cables. Wires. And Tubes.
-Life: A leading cause of death.
-Peace: What everybody's fighting for.
-Science: The art of method.
-Smart phone: A device designed for working too late and dying too soon.
-Selfie: A portrait of someone we used to know. Taken by someone we used to respect.
-Weekend: The two days of the week when your alienation is all your own.
I found them very true!
May 29, 2016
A compilation of bleakly tongue in cheek epigrams for the twitter age. Nein is nihilism skewering itself - but is that not what nihilism does best? Since nihilism destroys everything that human beings construct meaning from, it is inevitable that it fall upon its own sword. The glossary at the back is a successor to The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary. Examples:
Anxiety: Fear of the unknown. (Depression: Fear of the known.)
Change: What you want. When, where, and how you do not want it.
Mid-life crisis: The sudden realization that you've been dying all along.
Society: a system of errors.
Humour as black as Tartarus and as dry as the Sahara. There is probably something in here to vex almost any demographic.
Anxiety: Fear of the unknown. (Depression: Fear of the known.)
Change: What you want. When, where, and how you do not want it.
Mid-life crisis: The sudden realization that you've been dying all along.
Society: a system of errors.
Humour as black as Tartarus and as dry as the Sahara. There is probably something in here to vex almost any demographic.
December 25, 2016
Should you read this book? Nein. Would I recommend it? Nein. Read it anyways.
October 8, 2018
#ComeTrovareLaFelicità
Pensa a dove l'hai vista l'ultima volta.
Guarda se è ancora lì.
Se non c'è, chiediti perché se n'è andata.
Se c'è, chiediti perché non sei rimasto. (p. 45)
#SelfHelp
Sii padrone della tua alienazione.
Monetizza il tuo disgusto.
Decostruisci la tua disperazione.
Mangia. Nega. Ama. (p. 107)
dal "Glossario":
Genio: Quando la tristezza parla alla solitudine. E ride. (p. 129)
Ideologia: L'errata convinzione che le tue convinzioni non siano né convinzioni né errate. (p. 130)
Patriottismo: L'amore per il proprio paese da parte di chi non ha mai messo il naso fuori.(p. 133)
Semiotica: La scienza che studia come il significato sia fatto per essere frainteso. (p. 135)
Pensa a dove l'hai vista l'ultima volta.
Guarda se è ancora lì.
Se non c'è, chiediti perché se n'è andata.
Se c'è, chiediti perché non sei rimasto. (p. 45)
#SelfHelp
Sii padrone della tua alienazione.
Monetizza il tuo disgusto.
Decostruisci la tua disperazione.
Mangia. Nega. Ama. (p. 107)
dal "Glossario":
Genio: Quando la tristezza parla alla solitudine. E ride. (p. 129)
Ideologia: L'errata convinzione che le tue convinzioni non siano né convinzioni né errate. (p. 130)
Patriottismo: L'amore per il proprio paese da parte di chi non ha mai messo il naso fuori.(p. 133)
Semiotica: La scienza che studia come il significato sia fatto per essere frainteso. (p. 135)
April 28, 2016
Aphoristic gems of humour for philosophy nerds.
A few favourites:
Aphorisms: Philosophy for those with little Zeit. Written by those with little Geist.
Coffee: the diuretic of enlightenment.
Ideology: the mistaken belief that your beliefs are neither mistaken nor beliefs.
Fundamentalism: A literal misreading of the misunderstood.
The End:
Patience, friends.
Change is slow.
The struggle long.
And Rome did not burn in a day.
A few favourites:
Aphorisms: Philosophy for those with little Zeit. Written by those with little Geist.
Coffee: the diuretic of enlightenment.
Ideology: the mistaken belief that your beliefs are neither mistaken nor beliefs.
Fundamentalism: A literal misreading of the misunderstood.
The End:
Patience, friends.
Change is slow.
The struggle long.
And Rome did not burn in a day.
June 6, 2015
I received this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Note: I was not previously familiar with the twitter account.
A delightful little collection of aphorisms. It was full of things that I would love to clip out and put in a scrapbook if I actually ever did things like create scrapbooks of weird aphorisms.
Note: I was not previously familiar with the twitter account.
A delightful little collection of aphorisms. It was full of things that I would love to clip out and put in a scrapbook if I actually ever did things like create scrapbooks of weird aphorisms.
October 20, 2015
I won this book through the giveaways. You will either get it and enjoy it or not and hate it. I found it clever and funny!
October 15, 2021
É um livrinho pequeno, em inglês, dá pra ler, se você tem um inglês intermediário. É um livro para se ler "de uma sentada só". Não diria que é triste, mas é pessimista, e bem minimalista. O livro tem 9 capítulos, um glossário, e uma parte chamada AFTERWORD que poderia ser uma espécie de "Posfácio". É pequeno. É muito, muito inteligente. O NEIN, é um pseudônimo do escritor Eric Jarosinski que é encontrado no Twitter. Eu encontrei o livro dele de graça no ZLIBRARY, em inglês. Não há uma versão em Português... YET, como ele diria. "Ainda".
October 24, 2021
There are some damn funny aphorisms in this little book...
Perhaps Marx is best read as religion.
Freud as literature.
Woolf as economics.
And Nietzsche as Nietzsche.
Psychoanalysis: Smoking your father’s cigar. On your mother’s couch.
Read Nietzsche.
Watch God die.
Re-read Nietzsche.
Watch nothing rise from the dead.
...and the whole book is full with those.
Perhaps Marx is best read as religion.
Freud as literature.
Woolf as economics.
And Nietzsche as Nietzsche.
Psychoanalysis: Smoking your father’s cigar. On your mother’s couch.
Read Nietzsche.
Watch God die.
Re-read Nietzsche.
Watch nothing rise from the dead.
...and the whole book is full with those.
October 13, 2018
Jean Baudrillard would be so happy with this! Philosophy deconstructed and then reproduced in the hyperreality of the internet!
June 7, 2015
Eric Jarosinski’s Nein: A Manifesto should be given to all new graduates of high school and college and even to—why not? one is never too old—recent retirees. Nein is a manifesto of refusal, in the curmudgeonly manner of Adorno (that’s him on the cover) or Thomas Bernhard—more like Bernhard, though, in the charm of its unrelieved ranting, minus the tendency of Bernhard’s narrators to breathlessly denounce for unpunctuated pages at a time. Jarosinski’s voice here is in service to the Tweet, his aphorisms here originally published on his Twitter feed.
Although Jarosinski prefaces Nein with a line from Adorno (“The pleasure of thinking is not to be recommended”), what Jarosinski attacks is a cultural tendency to not think. “Ideology: The mistaken belief that your beliefs are neither beliefs nor mistaken.”
Frankly, I love a good hater so long as he is articulate and intelligent. A good hater doesn’t give himself the benefit of the doubt, either: “#HowToFindHappiness / Think of where you last saw it. / See if it’s still there. / If it’s not, ask yourself why it left. / If it is, ask yourself why you didn’t stay.”
And who has never felt that “Only two problems with the world today. / 1. The world. / And 2. Today. / Three, if you count tomorrow”?
I don’t know if Nein is just a one-off from Jarosinski, or if he’ll try on the mantle of Adorno’s ghost for another book. He has great comic sensibility—could he fulfill Wittgenstein’s assertion that it should be possible to write a book of philosophy made up entirely by jokes? Nein could be read as a first go at it. Black humor succinctly highlights absurd contradictions in our times, culture, and behaviors. And so does Nein.
Although Jarosinski prefaces Nein with a line from Adorno (“The pleasure of thinking is not to be recommended”), what Jarosinski attacks is a cultural tendency to not think. “Ideology: The mistaken belief that your beliefs are neither beliefs nor mistaken.”
Frankly, I love a good hater so long as he is articulate and intelligent. A good hater doesn’t give himself the benefit of the doubt, either: “#HowToFindHappiness / Think of where you last saw it. / See if it’s still there. / If it’s not, ask yourself why it left. / If it is, ask yourself why you didn’t stay.”
And who has never felt that “Only two problems with the world today. / 1. The world. / And 2. Today. / Three, if you count tomorrow”?
I don’t know if Nein is just a one-off from Jarosinski, or if he’ll try on the mantle of Adorno’s ghost for another book. He has great comic sensibility—could he fulfill Wittgenstein’s assertion that it should be possible to write a book of philosophy made up entirely by jokes? Nein could be read as a first go at it. Black humor succinctly highlights absurd contradictions in our times, culture, and behaviors. And so does Nein.
June 16, 2018
Hilarante, divertido e irreverente. Realmente disfrute su lectura. El pesimismo satírico cala entre los lectores al referirse en un formato sencillo a temas cotidianos.
February 5, 2016
I suspect Jarosinski would enjoy knowing that I had no idea what this book was about before I read it. So figure my surprise when I realized that Nein. A Manifesto is a collection of tweets from a Theodor Adorno-inspired Twitter account started by a failed academic. Yet despite my initial trepidation, Nein is a wonderfully pithy attempt at synthesizing philosophical ideas in an aphoristic modality that seems to represent our contemporary culture: Twitter. I've read this book twice in as many days (not a remarkable accomplishment considering what the book is) and the second reading was far less jarring.
The glossary is also incredible intriguing. Walter Benjamin's entry, for example, reads, "The mourning of philosophy cut short by history" (117). An entry like this represents Jarosinski's tone and approach to his subject matter: coy, disarming, but reverent nevertheless.
I strongly recommend Nein for anyone familiar with Marx, The Frankfurt School, cultural theory, political theory, philosophy, and you know, any "ism" that I failed to mention. Read it twice though. I certainly enjoyed it more the second time.
The glossary is also incredible intriguing. Walter Benjamin's entry, for example, reads, "The mourning of philosophy cut short by history" (117). An entry like this represents Jarosinski's tone and approach to his subject matter: coy, disarming, but reverent nevertheless.
I strongly recommend Nein for anyone familiar with Marx, The Frankfurt School, cultural theory, political theory, philosophy, and you know, any "ism" that I failed to mention. Read it twice though. I certainly enjoyed it more the second time.
May 18, 2015
Nein Quarterly is a Twitter account (@NeinQuarterly) that spoofs philosophy and higher education. In the words of its creator, Nein Quarterly is "a 'Compendium of Utopian Negation' that uses the aphoristic potential of Twitter to plumb the existential abyss of modern life—and finds it bottomless." It is often very funny with its take on philosophy and nihilism. This book is a quick reading entertaining extension of the Twitter account. It is very much in the vein of the Twitter feed; fans will enjoy it though it does not really break any new ground.
[I received an advanced e-galley of this book through Netgalley. It is due to be published September 8, 2015.]
[I received an advanced e-galley of this book through Netgalley. It is due to be published September 8, 2015.]
April 27, 2018
Hacer un comentario sobre este libro amerita prescindir de formalismos: ¡Qué vaina tan buena! Además de haber sido muy bien editado por Anagrama, en un format poco convencional y agradable, se trata de un libro lleno de genialidades basadas en un peculiar humor pesimista, por lo cual se deja ver fácilmente la influencia que han tenido en Jarosinski autores como Cioran, Nietzsche y Žižek. Totalmente recomendado; se lee rápido por lo brillante que es.
December 21, 2015
The Good News:
I received this book as a Goodreads giveaway.
And yes:
That is also the bad news.
Ok I am not sure who to blame here. Maybe it's me; maybe it's Jarosinski. Some of the 80 or so aphorisms were funny eg
The good news:
Technology has brought us together
And yes:
That is also the bad news.
but, for the most part I just didn't get it.
I received this book as a Goodreads giveaway.
And yes:
That is also the bad news.
Ok I am not sure who to blame here. Maybe it's me; maybe it's Jarosinski. Some of the 80 or so aphorisms were funny eg
The good news:
Technology has brought us together
And yes:
That is also the bad news.
but, for the most part I just didn't get it.
December 29, 2015
Think I might have strained something, rolling my eyes while reading this.
December 25, 2016
Nein, nien is NOT a review. Nein is nein!
July 24, 2017
If anything, it was too short, but the glossary part is really amazing, something Eugene Thacker might have penned if he was in the mood for it.
August 22, 2017
Pretty troll nanofiction twitter style poetry. Needs a pretty basic philosophy background to understand many of the jokes.
October 26, 2017
wanna read your philosophy in bite-sized chunks like tweets? oh yes you do
March 10, 2018
Clever book that made me laugh and more importantly intrigued. It made me want to study philosophy even more. A nice read but can be challenging.
September 30, 2022
Bevat grappige, filosofisch getinte aforismen die aanzetten tot denken over onder meer literatuur en de maatschappij. Het boek laat zich het best in etappes lezen, waarbij je het tussendoor weglegt.
November 22, 2017
Es ist nun weiß Gott nicht so, dass ich erwähnenswert große Ahnung von (der akademischen?) Philosophie hätte. So allumfassend Letztere auch sein mag, was sie so sexy macht, ist die Ehrfurcht, die sie einem einjagt. Deshalb mögen wir gemeinhin auch keine so genannten Stammtischphilosophen. Also Abiturproleten, die sich bei Hanswursterkenntnissen über die letzte Freundin oder Daddy's Bierkonsum gleich selbst einen M.Phil ausstellen wollen.
Jarosinski ist freilich nicht ganz so schlimm, aber doch wohl ein Stück weit vergleichbar. Er weiß gewiss Einiges über die (?) akademische Philosophie. Aber sie auf tweets zusammenzustauchen, befeuert ausgerechnet diese Idioten da draußen, die sich zwar tiefgründig denken, aber in ihrer Borniertheit zumeist überhaupt gar nichts verstanden haben. Sprich, Menschen, die zu banal, faul oder beschäftigt sind, sich der tatsächlichen Sisyphusarbeit einer Hegelianischen Dialektik oder Habermas' Kommunikativem Handeln auszusetzen. (Ich weiß fast nichts von Letzteren, btw.)
Sich stattdessen mit vier Sätzen/Wortgruppen pro Seite zu begnügen, den Charme des Modernen zu spüren (Wäh!) und sich weismachen zu lassen, man müsse nur hin und wieder irgendwo die Namen Nietzsche, Marx und Adorno lesen, um diese Namen auch zu begreifen, ist das genaue Gegenteil von allen humanistischen Erkenntnissen, die die Philosophie je hervorgebracht hat: Der Weg des geringsten Widerstands.
Ich will Jarosinski nicht unbedingt Oberflächlichkeit unterstellen. Als Person jedenfalls. Nein: A Manifesto jedoch ist nichts weiter als genau das: Ein auf den digitalischen Menschen zurechtgeschrumpfter Versuch, die eigene philosophische Unzulänglichkeit zu kompensieren.
Jarosinski ist freilich nicht ganz so schlimm, aber doch wohl ein Stück weit vergleichbar. Er weiß gewiss Einiges über die (?) akademische Philosophie. Aber sie auf tweets zusammenzustauchen, befeuert ausgerechnet diese Idioten da draußen, die sich zwar tiefgründig denken, aber in ihrer Borniertheit zumeist überhaupt gar nichts verstanden haben. Sprich, Menschen, die zu banal, faul oder beschäftigt sind, sich der tatsächlichen Sisyphusarbeit einer Hegelianischen Dialektik oder Habermas' Kommunikativem Handeln auszusetzen. (Ich weiß fast nichts von Letzteren, btw.)
Sich stattdessen mit vier Sätzen/Wortgruppen pro Seite zu begnügen, den Charme des Modernen zu spüren (Wäh!) und sich weismachen zu lassen, man müsse nur hin und wieder irgendwo die Namen Nietzsche, Marx und Adorno lesen, um diese Namen auch zu begreifen, ist das genaue Gegenteil von allen humanistischen Erkenntnissen, die die Philosophie je hervorgebracht hat: Der Weg des geringsten Widerstands.
Ich will Jarosinski nicht unbedingt Oberflächlichkeit unterstellen. Als Person jedenfalls. Nein: A Manifesto jedoch ist nichts weiter als genau das: Ein auf den digitalischen Menschen zurechtgeschrumpfter Versuch, die eigene philosophische Unzulänglichkeit zu kompensieren.
June 19, 2019
My glass: half empty.
My grave: half full.
The bad news: Dreams don’t come true.
The worse news: Yours might.
Emoticon: Symbol expressing an emotion we can no longer express in the form of a face we can no longer countenance.
Pun: A small change to a word reflecting a far larger error in judgment.
Ideology: The mistaken belief that your beliefs are neither beliefs nor mistaken.
Nihilism: The idealistic notion that nothing can change the world.
Happiness: A feeling of well-being appreciated once it has stopped.
My grave: half full.
The bad news: Dreams don’t come true.
The worse news: Yours might.
Emoticon: Symbol expressing an emotion we can no longer express in the form of a face we can no longer countenance.
Pun: A small change to a word reflecting a far larger error in judgment.
Ideology: The mistaken belief that your beliefs are neither beliefs nor mistaken.
Nihilism: The idealistic notion that nothing can change the world.
Happiness: A feeling of well-being appreciated once it has stopped.
July 9, 2021
Just a collection of witty and wise aphorisms, this book made me a smile and think. Here are a couple to help you decide-
#ArrangeYourWords
By those that seduced you.
Those that betrayed you.
Those that cut you.
And those that comforted you. And remained unsaid.
#HowToFindHappiness
Think of where you last saw it.
See if it's still there.
If it's not, ask yourself why it left.
If it is, ask yourself why you didn't stay.
#ArrangeYourWords
By those that seduced you.
Those that betrayed you.
Those that cut you.
And those that comforted you. And remained unsaid.
#HowToFindHappiness
Think of where you last saw it.
See if it's still there.
If it's not, ask yourself why it left.
If it is, ask yourself why you didn't stay.
May 18, 2019
Rather liked this short book of short thoughts or quips.
CHANGE: what you want. When, where and how you do not want it.
CONSUMPTION: Capitalism's drug of choice.
ENGLISH: A language everybody speaks but nobody can spell.
MID-LIFE CRISIS: The sudden realization that you've been dying all along.
FaultyTowers:
Italian. The language of romance
French. The language of love
German. The love of language
English. The love of English
CHANGE: what you want. When, where and how you do not want it.
CONSUMPTION: Capitalism's drug of choice.
ENGLISH: A language everybody speaks but nobody can spell.
MID-LIFE CRISIS: The sudden realization that you've been dying all along.
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November 3, 2017
Because I enjoy his tweets, I wanted to read the book too. I’m giving it 3.5 stars. It is very witty, but I wish I’d read it in English instead of Dutch. A translation kinda takes the edge off, I think.
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