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Beyond Belief

by Nir Eyal

bookshelves: health-and-wellbeing, level-up, psychology, currently-reading

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“Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or that. Their spirit (provided we can still talk about a spirit in their case) feeds only on sensations and on dynamism, thus becoming the vehicle for the incarnation of darker forces.”
― Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

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“The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

tags: hell, mishima

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“We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.”
― Yukio Mishima

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“I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

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“Maybe that's a haiku, maybe not, it might be a little too complicated," said Japhy. "A real haiku's gotta be as simple as porridge and yet make you see the real thing, like the greatest haiku of them all probably is the one that goes 'The sparrow hops along the veranda, with wet feet.' By Shiki. You see the wet footprints like a vision in your mind and yet in those few words you also see all the rain that's been falling that day and almost smell the wet pine needles."

(The Dharma Bums, Chap. 8)”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: gary-snyder, haiku, jack-kerouac, shiki, simple-as-porridge, the-sparrow-hops

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