Posts Tagged ‘philosophy’

Pythagoras

June 17, 2010

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Music is a pearl
of silence in transit to
spheres of reverence

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Men continue to
massacre each other for
peace and kill for God

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The empire of art
rules the universe with the
power of angels

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Momentous passion
is immortal . . . The soul is
mortal perfection

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Virtue is the near
neighbor of evil . . . Rejoice
in the great journey

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A thought is a cloud
unclouded by reason or
the air of chaos

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Thales of Miletus

June 15, 2010

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The beautiful must
submit to ruin . . . Time brings
pain to fierce roses

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Repentance is the
bread of pleasure . . . Conceal the
light of mind from God

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The success of fools
and villains makes the whole world
ill with common scorn

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Life is nothing more
than necessity adorned
with the crest of hope

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The snaky heart is
an ornament admired most
for its loveliness

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Sartre

May 6, 2010

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God is not fully
responsible for his fear
of being disproved

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Hell is another
atheist who cannot stop
thinking about God

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Politics precedes
essence . . . But literature
precedes existence

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Man is condemned to
be free of all sin in the
garden of anguish

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Three o’clock is too
late in the day to believe
in eternal truth

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The wolves of Fascism
will infect our age with a
ravenous despair

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Fertilization
prolongs the illusion of
virtuous ape love

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Books are treacherous
like sand that has escaped from
the hourglass of words

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Skepticism is a
battle in the war against
generosity

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Kierkegaard

February 28, 2010

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Anxiety is
beautiful music . . . Regret
sounds like garish birds

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Grotesque paradox . . .
God dies in the moment of
fertilization

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God is a tyrant
who cannot be moved . . . Prayer is
the greatest danger

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It is fruitless to
quarrel with human passion . . .
Love enormously

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God is an inmate
in the asylum He built
. . . breathless with sorrow

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Purity of heart
is the root of all evil . . .
Saints creep in the dirt

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Once you label me
I am incapable of
grasping my own thought

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At the bottom of
the snare of animal love
lies indifference

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Bores are important.
Boredom is interesting.
Idleness is joy.

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The dirt cheap souls of
incalculable insects
whisper like soft sighs

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Wittgenstein

January 27, 2010

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I don’t know my way
about . . . View is still not clear . . .
One must be silent

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If a lion could
talk, nothing intelligent
would ever get done

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The bewitchment of
sex is war . . . A religious
night ceremony

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A soul is like a
fresh seed sown on the ground of
unlocked timelessness

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I don’t know why we
are here . . . Logic is not like
walking in the snow

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Music should be played.
Humor is transcendental.
Nothing is tragic.

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Science is the soul
of seclusion . . . The body
an unknown language

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The sun will rise on
a mirror-image of the
world . . . Vanity church

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Harmony is a
dangerous organism
that limits my world

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Silliness is no
less complicated than a
combination lock

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Reality is
a public exhibition
of stupidities

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Every culture is
tormented by the music
of eternal life

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A confession is
an inner process with not
an inkling of truth

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I awaken to
the green valleys of barren
imagination

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Tomorrow is based
on the metaphysical
mistakes of today

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In a certain sense,
to die in your sleep would be
deceiving oneself

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Contradictions are
very wise . . . They say nothing
about everything

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Pain is nothing for
the truly religious man
who sits astride death

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For man to enjoy
war he must be frightened to
death of bad spirits

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If only we had
eyes to see the horrors of
peace all around us

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Sex is a system
of misleading techniques . . . The
body knows too much

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Death is a theory,
not an activity . . . A
great hypothesis

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To lie is a part
of life . . . The deeper truth will
take care of itself

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Heidegger

January 27, 2010

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Dwell as though we know
the master of hydrogen . . .
One body essence

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Language is famine . . .
History is the stiff-necked
pettiness of life

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The possible can
save us . . . Only a god is
four-dimensional

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Suicide house . . . The
motorized organism
blockades consciousness

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Anxiety bomb . . .
Transcendence is the shepherd
of animal thought

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Selfhood is the death
garden of Being; time-space
the adversary

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Metaphysics is
essentially glorified
time calculation

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Learn to know Nothing . . .
Responsibility is
intelligible

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Being is a truth
formula . . . It requires
ego reduction

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If I acknowledge
that we are still not thinking,
why face life squarely?

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Man demands modern
physics . . . Extermination
on glorified ground

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Entities resolve
into the manufacture
of the world’s corpses

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Action gathers the
centuries passing away
within history

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