Richard Q

Neither Free nor Unfree

If you turn away from the abyss, the abyss turns no less abysmalMore

Das Nichts nichtet. –HeideggerMore

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem. –Wallace StevensMore

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. –EinsteinMore

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. –HeideggerMore

Only money economy has filled the days of so many people…with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones. –Georg SimmelMore

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster…. –NietzscheMore

Nothing human is worthy of being taken very seriously. Nonetheless…. –Plato, via NietzscheMore

The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state. –Antonio DamasioMore

No one pushes his way through here, certainly not someone with a message from a dead man. –KafkaMore

Master Rinzai let go and said, “What a worthless shit-stick this true person of no rank is!” –Lin-chiMore

A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am alone, I am extinguished. –SartreMore

So they went out quickly and fled from the tomb, for they trembled and were amazed. And they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.More

Maybe love is what happens when we stop begging the world to be something other than what it isMore

…but the cow cannot be compared to anything. –Yajur VedaMore