Alexander

“Why do we say that time passes away, when we do not say with just as much emphasis that it arises?”
― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

“Scheme against your most sacred principles in thought, word and deed…. The only clear view is from atop a mountain of your dead selves.”
― Peter J. Carroll, Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic

“In the good old days of ‘actually existing Socialism,’ every schoolchild was told again and again of how Lenin read voraciously, and of his advice to young people: ‘Learn, learn, and learn!’ ... Marx, Engels, and Lenin were each asked which they preferred, a wife or a mistress. Marx, whose attitude in intimate matters is well known to have been rather conservative, answered ‘A wife’; Engels, who knew how to enjoy life, answered, of course, ‘A mistress’; the surprise comes with Lenin, who answered ‘Both, wife and mistress!’ Is he dedicated to a hidden pursuit of excessive sexual pleasures? No, since he quickly explains: ‘This way, you can tell your mistress that you’re with your wife, and your wife that you are about to visit your mistress…’ ‘And what do you actually do?’ ‘I go to a solitary place and learn, learn, and learn!”
― Slavoj Žižek, The Plague of Fantasies

“One must always strive to be as radical as reality itself.”
― Vladimir Lenin