Allan

“The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless”
― Robert Aickman

“Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx.”
― Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought

“The great prophetic work of the modern world is Goethe’s Faust, so little appreciated among the Anglo-Saxons. Mephistopheles offers Faust unlimited knowledge and unlimited power in exchange for his soul. Modern man has accepted that bargain. . . .

I believe in what the Germans term Ehrfurcht: reverence for things one cannot understand. Faust’s error was an aspiration to understand, and therefore master, things which, by God or by nature, are set beyond the human compass. He could only achieve this at the cost of making the achievement pointless. Once again, it is exactly what modern man has done.”
― Robert Aickman, The Collected Strange Stories of Robert Aickman, vol. I

“Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those that a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.”
― Gautama Buddha