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Tag Archives: Philosophy
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
A discovery
Das Nichts nichtet. –HeideggerMore
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
This Grand Device
Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. –HeideggerMore
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
Thoughtlessness upon waking
The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state. –Antonio DamasioMore
The Message, the Messenger
No one pushes his way through here, certainly not someone with a message from a dead man. –KafkaMore
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
Reconsidering hell
A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am alone, I am extinguished. –SartreMore
Love Happened
Maybe love is what happens when we stop begging the world to be something other than what it isMore
Achieving Immortality
One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive. –NietzscheMore
Once the rage settled down
We were as little sure of who we were as where we were after the rageMore
Love the Dust 