Zitat des Tages über Tröstlich / Consoling:
I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.
I find it more consoling to think of myself as little than to think of myself as big. I think I've gotten that from animals, particularly dogs. Dogs live such a modest life, and they don't live long, and the more you're around them, you kind of accept that.
I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.
