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“This is how it should be done: lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the opportunities it offers, find an advantageous place on it, find potential movements of deterritorialization, possible lines of flight, experience them, produce flow conjunctions here and there, try out continuums of intensities segment by segment, have a small plot of new land at all times.”
― Deleuze and Guattari

“If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

“We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes”
― Charles Bukowski

“I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.”
― Richard M. Rorty

“Everything has always already been said. And yet this "same" possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.”
― Martin Heidegger

“It is in changing that we find purpose.”
― Heraclitus

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.”
― Peter De Vries

“The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.”
― Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”
― Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

“Vad fruktar jag? Jag är en del utav oändligheten.

Jag är en del av alltets stora kraft,

en ensam värld inom miljoner världar,

en första gradens stjärna lik som slocknar sist.

Triumf att leva, triumf att andas, triumf att finnas till!

Triumf att känna tiden iskall rinna genom sina ådror

och höra nattens tysta flod

och stå på berget under solen.

Jag går på sol, jag står på sol,

jag vet av ingenting annat än sol.



Tid - förvandlerska, tid - förstörerska, tid - förtrollerska

kommer du med nya ränker, tusen lister för att bjuda mig en tillvaro

som ett litet frö, som en ringlad orm, som en klippa i havet?

Tid - du mörderska - vik ifrån mig!

Solen fyller upp mitt bröst med ljuvlig honung upp till randen

och hon säger: en gång slockna alla stjärnor, men de lysa alltid utan skräck.”
― Edith Södergran

“I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.

Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven't said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.”
― Tove Jansson

“Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.”
― Werner Herzog

“Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.”
― Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next

“Far from it being true that man and his activity makes the world comprehensible, he is himself the most incomprehensible of all, and drives me relentlessly to the view of the accursedness of all being, a view manifested in so many painful signs in ancient and modern times. It is precisely man who drives me to the final despairing question: Why is there something? Why not nothing?”
― Friedrich Schelling

“The I think, I am, is, since Descartes, the basic mistake of all knowledge; thinking is not my thinking, and being is not my being, for everything is only of God or of the totality.”
― Friedrich Schelling

“Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter. What is encountered may be Socrates, a temple or a demon. It may be grasped in a range of affective tones: wonder, love, hatred, suffering. In whichever tone, its primary characteristic is that it can only be sensed. In this sense it is opposed to recognition.”
― Gilles Deleuze

“Nevertheless, difference remains not the given itself but that by which the given is given. How could thought avoid going that far, how could it avoid thinking that which is most opposed to thought? With the identical, we think with all our force, but without producing the least thought: with the different, by contrast, do we not have the highest thought, but also that which cannot be thought?”
― Gilles Delezue

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

“In other words, Kant’s defence of revisionary ontological monism entails at the very least the possibility of revisionary ontological pluralism. I take him to be committed to revisionary ontological monism because he thinks that the domain of appearances contains within it everything that exists, and anything that is outside the domain cannot exist, but might perhaps schmexist. However, Kant’s monism cannot make sense of this option, in particular, because it limits the concept of real possibility to the domain of existence. Thus, the other domains – schmexistence, krexistence, X-istence, and so on – are not really possible, but are maybe schmpossible, krpossible, or X-possible.”
― Markus Gabriel, Fields of Sense: A New Realist Ontology

“Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.”
― John Archibald Wheeler, Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

“It is almost better to tell your own lies than somebody else's truth; in the first case you are a man, in the second you are no better than a parrot!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.”
― Emmanuel Levinas

“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus