‘…nature sensibly endowed him with a taste for cruelty and an intense curiosity about pain and death. Without them, he’s trapped in the afternoon shopping malls of a limitless mediocrity.’
J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes
J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes
A moronic society invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior lucidities whose faculties of divination embarassed it.
Antonin Artaud, Van Gogh the Suicided of Society
Antonin Artaud, Van Gogh the Suicided of Society
Nets exist because of fish, when the fish is caught you forget the net
Words exist because of meanings, when the meaning is caught you forget the word
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? I'd like to have a word with him.
Zhuangzi
Words exist because of meanings, when the meaning is caught you forget the word
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? I'd like to have a word with him.
Zhuangzi
Eyes, look your last.
Arms, take your last embrace.
And, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Arms, take your last embrace.
And, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Everything that is intelligent has already been thought; one must only try to think it once more.
Goethe
Goethe
All great things bring about their own destruction through an act of self-overcoming: thus the law of life will have it.
Nietzsche
Nietzsche
All creatures are doing their best
to help God in
His birth of Himself.
Enough talk for the night.
He is laboring in me;
I need to be silent
for a while,
worlds are forming
in my heart.
Meister Eckhart, Expands His Being
to help God in
His birth of Himself.
Enough talk for the night.
He is laboring in me;
I need to be silent
for a while,
worlds are forming
in my heart.
Meister Eckhart, Expands His Being