in medias res

My life is so many fragments that I start to believe any dusty pile of themMore

What a stupid thing, vengeance

For that humanity might be redeemed from revenge: that is for me the bridge to the highest hope and a rainbow after lashing storms. Nietzsche’s ZarathustraMore

Stakes

But what help is it to us to look into the constellation of truth? We look into the danger and see the growth of the saving power. –HeideggerMore

A glance at perspective

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself. –Thomas NagelMore

A Note on Nihilism

It’s different, how an individual–especially a philosopher, trained how he could be trained in times of crises–faces the threat of nihilism and how it is faced generally, for members of a social body generally under its throes.  While the former holds his head above, or at least at a distance–two or three centuries worth of…More

I think I’ll take a warm bath

They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching Thang to this effect: “Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again.” –Henry David ThoreauMore

Just

No human thing is of serious importance. –PlatoMore