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> “Automobilism is an illness, a mental illness. This illness has a pretty name: speed... [Man] can no longer stand still, he shivers, his nerves tense like spr
by leeoniya 1y ago
> “Automobilism is an illness, a mental illness. This illness has a pretty name: speed... [Man] can no longer stand still, he shivers, his nerves tense like springs, impatient to get going once he has arrived somewhere because it is not somewhere else, somewhere else, always somewhere else.”
Previously:
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
-- Blaise Pascal (~1650)
- teamonkey 1y agoPascal’s quote rings differently today.
- owenversteeg 1y agoFor some good writing on boredom, check out Joseph Brodsky’s In Praise of Boredom - a short speech from 1989.