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“There is in every madman
a misunderstood genius
whose idea
shining in his head
frightened people
and for whom delirium was the only solution
to the strangulation
that life had prepared for him.”
― Antonin Artaud

“And yet, for my art and for my loved ones, I will gladly endure to the end.”
― Egon Schiele

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”
― Egon Schiele

“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

“How shall a man be proud, when his conception is a crime, his birth a penalty, his life a labour, and death a necessity!—”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, On Human Nature

“I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.”
― Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.”
― Antonin Artaud

“I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat.”
― Antonin Artaud

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
― Spinoza

“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.”
― Émile Durkheim

“Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.”
― Émile Durkheim

“it is a more or less complex system of myths, dogmas, rites and ceremonies.”
― Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

“Thus the believer, like the delirious man, lives in a world peopled with beings and things which have only a verbal existence.”
― Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

“To hell with facts! We need stories!”
― Ken Kesey

“A bluetick hound bays out there in the fog, running scared and lost because he can’t see. No tracks on the ground but the one’s he’s making, and he sniffs in every direction with his cold red-rubber nose and picks up no scent but his own fear, fear burning down into him like steam.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“She slides through the door with a gust of cold and locks the door behind her and I see her fingers trail across the polished steel—tip of each finger the same color as her lips. Funny orange. Like the tip of a soldering iron. Color so hot or so cold if she touches you with it you can’t tell which.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.”
― Émile Durkheim

“Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.”
― Émile Durkheim

“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.”
― Egon Schiele

“I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.”
― Egon Schiele

“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht.
Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt.
Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist.


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Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through.
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus