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"Solid and playfully dark.
Like a drunk uncle retelling a childhood classic" — May 15, 2025 02:45PM
"Solid and playfully dark.
Like a drunk uncle retelling a childhood classic" — May 15, 2025 02:45PM
Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim. It is absurd to look upon the enormous amount of pain that abounds everywhere in the world, and originates in needs and necessities
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“I wish I could say that success turns people into plastic dolls, but the truth is that I don't know any successful people”
― Hey Nostradamus!
― Hey Nostradamus!
“Thrasymachos. Tell me now, in one word, what shall I be after my death? And mind you be clear and precise. Philalethes. All and nothing! Thrasymachos. I thought so! I gave you a problem, and you solve it by a contradiction. That's a very stale trick. Philalethes. Yes, but you raise transcendental questions, and you expect me to answer them in language that is only made for immanent knowledge. It's no wonder that a contradiction ensues.”
― Studies in Pessimism
― Studies in Pessimism
“what penalty can frighten a man who is not afraid of death itself?”
― Studies in Pessimism
― Studies in Pessimism
“This seems to me absolutely one of the quintessential things about the human condition. It’s what actually distinguishes man from any other animal: living with those who have lived and the companionship of those who are no longer alive. Not necessarily the people that one knew personally, I mean the people perhaps whom one only knows by what they did, or what they left behind, this question of the company of the past, that’s what interests me, and archives are a kind of site in the sense of like an archaeological site.”
― Portraits: John Berger on Artists
― Portraits: John Berger on Artists
“to conclude the matter, what is even an eternal remembrance? A mere nothing. What then is that about which we ought to employ our serious pains? This one thing, thoughts just, and acts social, and words which never lie, and a disposition which gladly accepts all that happens, as necessary, as usual, as flowing from a principle and source of the same kind.”
― The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
― The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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