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""Some of these men the devil will deceive. He sends a sort of dew - they think it is angels' food - coming out of the air as it were, and falling gently into their mouths ! They get the habit therefore of sitting gaping, as though they were catching flies! All this is really only pious fraud, for their souls are empty of real devotion. In their hearts is vanity and error, caused by their fantastic practices."" — Dec 12, 2024 01:08AM
""Some of these men the devil will deceive. He sends a sort of dew - they think it is angels' food - coming out of the air as it were, and falling gently into their mouths ! They get the habit therefore of sitting gaping, as though they were catching flies! All this is really only pious fraud, for their souls are empty of real devotion. In their hearts is vanity and error, caused by their fantastic practices."" — Dec 12, 2024 01:08AM
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""He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand. I looked thereupon and thought: What may this be? And it was answered thus: It is all that is made. I marvelled how it might last, for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for little[ness]. And I was answered: It lasteth, and ever shall [last] for that God loveth it. And so All-thing hath the Being by the love of God."" — Dec 04, 2024 06:54AM
""He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand. I looked thereupon and thought: What may this be? And it was answered thus: It is all that is made. I marvelled how it might last, for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for little[ness]. And I was answered: It lasteth, and ever shall [last] for that God loveth it. And so All-thing hath the Being by the love of God."" — Dec 04, 2024 06:54AM
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
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“Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiques, jeux d'espace [Utopias, play of space]): digest of the American way of life, panegyric of American values, idealized transposition of a contradictory reality. Certainly. But this masks something else and this "ideological" blanket functions as a cover for a simulation of the third order: Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation
“You cannot change the world with ideas. People with few ideas are less likely to make mistakes; they follow what everyone else does and are no trouble to anyone; they're successful, make money, find good jobs, enter politics, receive honours; they become famous writers, academics, journalists. Can anyone who is so good at looking after their own interests really be stupid? I'm the stupid one, the one who wanted to go tilting at windmills.”
― The Prague Cemetery
― The Prague Cemetery
“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“We want to get behind the beauty, but it is only a surface. It is like a mirror that reflects to us our own desire for good. It is a sphinx, an enigma, a sorrowfully irritating mystery. We want to feed on it, but it is only an object we can look on; it appears to us from a certain distance. The great sorrow of human life is knowing that to look and to eat are two different operations. Only on the other side of heaven, where God lives, are they one and the same operation. Children already experience this sorrow when they look at a cake for a long time and nearly regret eating it, but are powerless to help themselves. Maybe the vices, depravities and crimes are nearly always or even always in their essence attempts to eat beauty, to eat what one can only look at. Eve initiated this. If she lost our humanity by eating a fruit, the reverse attitude— looking at a fruit without eating it— must be what saves.”
― Waiting for God
― Waiting for God
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