December 2011
62 posts
“Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much...”
– Herman Hesse (via @johannal)
“It is man’s intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the...”
– Aldous Huxley (via cultureofresistance)
“ESTRAGON: Let’s hang ourselves immediately.
VLADIMIR: From a bough? They go...”
– Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot” (via aliceinslaughterhouse)
“Loneliness is not solitude. In solitude, I am “by myself,” together with my...”
– Hannah Arendt, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy” (via aliceinslaughterhouse)
“If you think about death
long enough
I have found
it belongs
it makes sense...”
– Charles Bukowski, “You write many poems about Death” (via aliceinslaughterhouse)
“You fail to experience the city’s depth, you fail to experience the sense of...”
– Ben Lerner, from Behold the Man: Apology for the Player Piano (via hypocrite-lecteur)
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“That night, in our darkened bedroom, I lay beside Kumiko, staring at the ceiling...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“I see more than this, more than I can tell you, More than there are words for.”
– T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion (via philphys)
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“I don’t understand everything you say, but I understand everything you...”
– Millicent in Henry James’ The Princess Casamassima
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via julie911)
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“A corollary to the fraudulence paradox is that you simultaneously want to fool...”
– David Foster Wallace, “Good Old Neon.” Oblivion.
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“The true greatness of a State does not spring from a contemptible source. It is...”
– Joseph Conrad. “Autocracy and War.” Notes on Life and Letters. New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1972. pp. 83-114. p. 91.
“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity… the grave will supply plenty of...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via madchris)
“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.”
– Edmund Burke (via 18thcentury)
“That’s strange,” said the squirrel aloud, with some surprise. “That cardboard...”
– Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson (via ghosthost)
Philosophy+Physics: John Searle on Derrida →
philphys:
With Derrida, you can hardly misread him, because he’s so obscure. Every time you say, “He says so and so,” he always says, “You misunderstood me.” But if you try to figure out the correct interpretation, then that’s not so easy. I once said this to Michel Foucault, who was more hostile to Derrida…
“In highly simplified terms, it could be said that the post-totalitarian system...”
– Václav Havel, from “The Power of the Powerless” (via hypocrite-lecteur)
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka (via philphys)
“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation,...”
– Neitzsche, The Will to Power
“An assertion that something is without interpretable meaning is a weak...”
– Steven Justice
Zielschmerz
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you created in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could, only to break in case of emergency.