The eyes I couldn’t see were the most penetratingMore
Tag Archives: joy
Different Still Indifferent
The spirit is a stomach. –ZarathustraMore
An irritable schooling
The fly is wisdom, and messenger…and nuisanceMore
All Along
All the things that really inflame our passions are really unheard-of, impossible thingsMore
Towards a philosophy of empty-mindedness
empty heads need not ring hollowMore
On the consequences of transplanting
It is the boast of the Feng-shui system that it teaches man how to rule nature and his own destiny by showing him how heaven and earth rule him. –Ernest EitelMore
Neither Free nor Unfree
If you turn away from the abyss, the abyss turns no less abysmalMore
possibility of poetry
It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem. –Wallace StevensMore
The Maybe of Too Little
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. –EinsteinMore
Writing for a Certain Future
Only money economy has filled the days of so many people…with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones. –Georg SimmelMore
On joy and pessimism
Nothing human is worthy of being taken very seriously. Nonetheless…. –Plato, via NietzscheMore
Getting Used to Being Self
Master Rinzai let go and said, “What a worthless shit-stick this true person of no rank is!” –Lin-chiMore
Χριστός ἀνέστη!
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
What is Like Sweet Fresh Milk
…but the cow cannot be compared to anything. –Yajur VedaMore
Achieving Immortality
One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive. –NietzscheMore
Love the Dust 