“When we label someone it completely stifles our curiosity in seeing or understanding them as something more complicated, interesting, multi-faceted, or just more than the label we’ve assigned them. It gives no room for growth, no room for fluidity, no room for change, and no room for further evoluti…”
— Kendra Syrdal, The Uncomfortable Truth About Not Being Bisexual After All
“The discoveries of 1910 establish no basis for social or intellectual progress... This is why Michelstaedter's suicide seems so coherent: a consequence of pushing contradictions to their deadly extreme.”
— Thomas Harrison, The discoveries of 1910 establish no basis for social or intellectual progress...
“Here prescience can be felt in the suffering itself. To those who mistrusted all political leaders, and all practical responses to things not intellectually digested, a belligerent reaction such as war to vague fears of dissolution could only be the disease masquerading as cure.”
— Thomas Harrison, a belligerent reaction such as war to vague fears of dissolution could only be the disease masquerading as cure.
“We can't we dismiss the fact that unprecedented numbers of young men went mad or took their own lives in the years immediately preceding the First World War—that is, before being able to be conscripted into service.”
— Thomas Harrison, We can't we dismiss the fact that unprecedented numbers of young men went mad or took their own lives in the years immediately preceding the First World War...