Posts Tagged ‘philosophy’
March 11, 2015
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Virtue is a vice
when it wears the mask of God’s
common dominion
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All nature is a
recognition of art’s gift
to adversity
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Labor injures the
mind; its only remedy
is the shrift of gold
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Hatred impairs one’s
self-respect, but vengeance is
fortune’s great favor
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Be silent, and if
you can’t be silent know that
we’re not listening
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Consult a madman
on all things and steer in a
favorable wind
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A fool knows not that
recognizable order
is never maintained
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Deny admittance
to the passions and life is
onerous solace
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The infirmity
of language shrivels before
the terror of law
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Live among men as
if you are unable to
bear humanity
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, Pisonian conspiracy, poetry, quote
Posted in Seneca | Comments Off on Seneca
April 20, 2014
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It is requisite
for the relaxation of
the mind to bear sin
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Because we cannot
know what God is, we live by
faith’s poetic myths
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Law: an ordinance
of reason made by him who
has care of evil
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A man cannot live
without the sorrow of his
carnal addictions
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Beware of the book
of knowledge; it is but a
material thing
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The active power
of the male seed tends to the
production of death
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Nothing on this earth
is prized more than a woman’s
playful endowments
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In order for a
war to be just, it requires
no explanation
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Life’s greatest pleasure
is the tedious pursuit
of true salvation
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, Summa Theologica
Posted in Aquinas | Comments Off on Aquinas
October 31, 2013
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Treat the wicked with
patience and compassion—but
help them to perish
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Existence is a
small fish in the water of
faithful nonbeing
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The Way of Heaven
is a music unheard by
the conquering gods
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The attainment of
nothing creates contentment;
nothing is wisdom
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The good traveler
moves in the shadow of the
paradoxical
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The greatest joy is
the courage to know that there
is no greatest joy
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When I let go of
what I am, my fingers touch
the source of my self
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A leader is a
goose. A scholar is an ox.
A sage is an ant.
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Death is a series
of small desires—it is the
flower of nature
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, taoism
Posted in Lao Tzu (Laozi) | Comments Off on Lao Tzu (Laozi)
October 21, 2013
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The spoken word is
the immediate truth of
animal knowledge
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Nature is the great
despoiler of beauty, an
uncivilized jest
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The scholar sees the
value in everything but
corporeal thought
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The dialectic
is pure light and pure darkness
in perfect conflict
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When liberty is
mentioned, universal rights
mean nothing at all
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Without shoes that fit,
little will be accomplished
in the real world
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Man is too divine
for Providence; he is the
total creation
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The history of
Germany depends on the
judgment of heroes
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Consciousness is the
external reality
of intuition
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The mere idea
of government rests solely
on servants’ logic
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Tags:dialectic, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Hegel | Comments Off on Hegel
May 14, 2013
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Every suicide
of a theologian is
a resurrection
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Patriotism is
the wax dog of cowardice
barking at your heart
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A man is himself
only so long as he’s not
intelligible
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The monogamous
relationship will never
assuage solitude
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After your death you
will be what you were before
music existed
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A man’s brain is an
idiot text, parasite
of his intellect
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Perversity is
a fascination with the
inexplicable
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Schopenhauer | Comments Off on Schopenhauer
February 23, 2013
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Luxury is the
natural contentment with
artificial things
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I am in friendly
harmony with evil: My
mother is for sale
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There is only one
good, but it is not in the
field of my knowledge
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Having the fewest
wants, I am nearest to the
poverty of God
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Old age is wretched;
I’ve had as much as a man
can bear and then some
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Beauty infects the
soul with the desire for gold
and wise ignorance
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Justice and virtue
are false words; follow not where
they aspire to lead
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Tags:haiku, hemlock, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Socrates (via Plato et al.) | Comments Off on Socrates (via Plato et al.)
January 21, 2013
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He alone is free
who lives with the confusion
of natural sin
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True virtue is life
under the direction of
the divine absurd
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Whatsoe’er is, is
in music. Without music
there is only God
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As you go to war,
be abject, indignant and
love deformity
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Salvation is the
greatest pride, far beyond man’s
self-complacency
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We feel and know that
happiness is a nuisance;
we strive not to laugh
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By common consent,
a humble ignorance is
our greatest desire
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Tags:haiku, panpsychism, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Spinoza | Comments Off on Spinoza
December 3, 2012
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God was Woman’s first
mistake; then Man; then Love; then
Christianity
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You have your way, I
have my way. Your way is fine
for a lunatic
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That which does not kill
me does not exist. Death is
the faith of all life
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If you gaze into
the abyss of marriage it
will destroy your soul
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Without egoism,
music would be a mistake
and art would be blind
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All things are subject
to the interpretation
of an idiot
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To live is to know
that suffering does not prove
anything at all
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Tags:Übermensch, haiku, Overman, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Nietzsche | Comments Off on Nietzsche
September 27, 2012
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Consciousness is a
concession to the boredom
of dead sensation
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Silence: the echo
of ennui, the sudden state
of eternity
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Democracy is
an imposter, the tyrant
as mad dream poet
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Civilization
is always preferable
to the tomb of God
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Paradise is a
distant enemy—a thorn
in my suffering
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The ambition to
sleep is thwarted by the fear
of killing oneself
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To speak in the name
of others is to butcher
sweet indifference
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, torment
Posted in E.M. Cioran | Comments Off on E.M. Cioran
July 25, 2012
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At thirty, a man
should know himself like the palm
of a martyr’s hand
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A work of art is
a confession from the heart
of a heretic
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The weight of days is
the true university
of the hopeless fool
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Absurdity can
strike any man in the face
like autumn flowers
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Alone, without God,
we are in servitude to
the State, our master
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The adoration
of the police is the sign
of a vulgar mind
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At a certain age,
every man’s responsible
for his slavery
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, The Stranger
Posted in Albert Camus | Comments Off on Albert Camus
June 13, 2012
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An oracle of
indifference, God never
finishes His work
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Two dangers threaten
the world: the man of sound mind
and the true madman
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Politeness is the
science of charm, abuse and
total massacre
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At times I think, and
at times I am—I feel like
a calculator
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The history of
literature may be summed
up in a word: war
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Poe is the dancer
of disorder, the fire of
dreams and misfortune
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Businessmen should be
under lock and key; it is
a poet’s judgment
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Tags:Cahiers, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Paul Valéry | Comments Off on Paul Valéry
October 6, 2011
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Religion will not
regain its old power till
we pray to Science
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Abstinence is not
simplicity; abstinence
is the death of God
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Civilization
advances by extending
its distrust of art
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The human body
is an instrument for the
production of vice
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To make the past live
we must perceive it as the
eternal present
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There are billions of
molecules in the human
soul—they dance like fish
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Ninety percent of
life is pain; the rest is Christ
nailed to a cheap cross
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Immortality
is the everlasting search
for anesthesia
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Of what value is
the attainment of knowledge
if you have no mind?
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Solitariness
is a bagatelle; being
alone is pure zest
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Amid the flux, there
is something that survives: the
need for a large truck
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Put your brain in cold
storage; thinking is merely
abstract inference
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Alfred North Whitehead | Comments Off on Alfred North Whitehead
September 5, 2011
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He who would be pure
must be transformed by the light
of a thousand books
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When God called at home
I had gone out for a walk . . .
Thwarted by action!
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A serene person
needs but one thing: the thick hide
of a simple ox
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I am secure in
the knowledge that God cannot
see my puny soul
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He who has mastered
detachment is the hinge on
the door of sorrow
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Contemplation of
the Eternal Birth will plant
you in the hard ground
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There exists only
yesterday—tomorrow was
many years ago
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God expects but one
thing of you—thank Him that you
know not what it is
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A thousand years hence
the eye of creation will
see only darkness
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The knower is a
creature whose heart is empty
of all compassion
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Meister Eckhart | Comments Off on Meister Eckhart
June 15, 2011
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If the sun does not
rise tomorrow, tyranny
will still rule us all
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A propensity
to hope must be proportioned
with vivid sorrow
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Any man seasoned
with the imperfections of
reason is a knave
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The moral beauty
of Christians gives rise to the
worst of history
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The inclination
to perceive miracles is
the brain’s poverty
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Custom is the great
guide to avarice and the
blood-spill of labor
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Persons acquainted
with the evidence of pure
design see not truth
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The healing temper
of an oyster attests to
its divinity
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Real passion is
in all cases sufficient
to establish vice
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, Scottish Enlightenment
Posted in Hume | Comments Off on Hume
May 12, 2011
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A priest is he who
lives solely in the realm of
sweet titillation
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An artist is he
for whom Christianity
is a divine sin
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A woman should have
more than one stomach so she
can consume herself
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The sensuous kiss
of childbirth is the essence
of the feminine
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Truth is a form of
paradox; paradox is
a form of hedgehog
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Tags:German Romanticism, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Friedrich von Schlegel | Comments Off on Friedrich von Schlegel
April 22, 2011
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The beauty of a
harlot is the frenzy of
her apparatus
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Before touching a
baby one must pour oil on
its joints and spindles
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To be happy is
to be uninformed; it is
life in a nutshell
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Memory is a
robber who seizes a past
that should be interred
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Etiquette is a
quarrel with the chaotic
boredom of fashion
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To a cannibal
procreation is just too
much of a good thing
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All human knowledge
takes the form of disgust with
interpretation
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The ecstasy of
destruction spices one’s fright
of death without hope
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Art is a process
of unconscious impulses
like rustling leaves
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Social existence:
the theatre of borrowed
wayside opinions
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Quotations are the
irresponsible substance
of character shock
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Love is all optics . . .
Flashes of passion that are
not worth the trouble
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Tags:Arcades Project, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Walter Benjamin | Comments Off on Walter Benjamin
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