Jack Canfora
http://www.thewritingonthepaddedwall.com
Who you are should be a question of what you value, not what you believe.
“The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing generated by this in writing.”
― Min kamp 1
― Min kamp 1
“physics too is an interpretation of the world and an arrangement of the world, and not an explanation of the world,” and that “we have measured the value of the world with categories that refer to a purely fabricated world.”
― My Struggle: Book 1
― My Struggle: Book 1
“Thereby men do not flee from being deceived as much as from being damaged by deception: what they hate at this stage is basically not the deception but the bad, hostile consequences of certain kinds of deceptions. In a similarly limited way man wants the truth: he desires the agreeable life-preserving consequences of truth, but he is indifferent to pure knowledge, which has no consequences; he is even hostile to possibly damaging and destructive truths.”
― The Portable Nietzsche
― The Portable Nietzsche
“that is what you do when you breathe, you trespass, again and again you trespass on the world.”
― My Struggle: Book 1
― My Struggle: Book 1
“And art has come to be a spectator of itself, the way it reacts, what newspapers write about it; the artist is a performer. That is how it is. Art does not know a beyond, science does not know a beyond, religion does not know a beyond, not anymore. Our world is enclosed around itself, enclosed around us, and there is no way out of it.”
― My Struggle: Book 1
― My Struggle: Book 1
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