“One may ask whether scientific instruments like the microscope or telescope could truly enlarge these sensory sectors in a way we could 'experience'—yet such gains cannot be interpreted by the senses, cannot be ‘lived’ in any real sense.”
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“For how much love of God is not required in order to be willing to permit oneself to be healed, when, through no fault of one's own, one has been deformed from the very beginning...”
― FEAR AND TREMBLING
― FEAR AND TREMBLING
“…how ready they themselves are at bottom to make one pay; how they crave to be hangmen. There is among them an abundance of the vengeful disguised as judges, who constantly bear the word “justice” in their mouths like poisonous spittle, always with pursed lips, always ready to spit upon all who are not discontented but go their own way in good spirits…”
― On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
― On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
“Aw furcrysay Mom, what’s the idea? The highways’ll be clogged tight. What’s the good figuring everything heada time and having everything all set if you’re going to start all over again at the last minute.”
― Lot & Lot's Daughter
― Lot & Lot's Daughter
“But it is in this that young people go so often and so badly astray. It is in their nature to have no patience, so they throw themselves together when love comes over them, and spend themselves just as they are in all their disorder, confusion and perplexity. What is to happen then? What is life to do with the heaps of half-battered life, which they call their fusion, and which, if possible, they would gladly call their happiness and their future? Each one loses himself for the other’s sake and loses the other, too, and many others who wanted to come afterwards. And each loses the immensity of his possibilities, and exchanges the coming and going of delicate things full of portent for a fruitless perplexity, of which nothing more can come; nothing but a little nausea, disappointment, poverty and flight into one of the many conventions which have been set up in great numbers like public shelters on this most dangerous of paths. No sphere of human experience is so well provided with conventions as this. Life-belts of the most different devices are there, boats and air-bladders. The conception of society has been able to create all kinds of refuges, for, as it was inclined to take the life of love as a pleasure, it had to make it easy, cheap, secure and safe, as public pleasures always are.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
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