Arno Jenseits

“Al enfrentar el "poco ser" del hombre con el pleno ser de Dios, la religión postula una vida eterna. Nos redime asi de la muerte, pero hace de la vida terrestre una larga pena y una expiación de la falta original. Al matar a la muerte, la religión desvive a la vida. La eternidad deshabita al instante. Porque vida y muerte son inseparales. La muerte está, presente en la vida : vivimos muriendo. Y cada minuto que morimos , lo vivimos. Al quitarnos el morir, la religión nos quita la vida. En nombre de la vida eterna, la religión afirma la muerte de esta vida.

El Arco y la lira”
― Octavio Paz

“Os homens desesperados vivem em cantos. Todos os homens que amam vivem em cantos. Todos os leitores de livros vivem em cantos.”
― Pascal Quignard, Terrasse à Rome

“There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”
― H.L. Mencken, The Gist of Mencken: Quotations from America's Critic