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‘Humiliations are my sweetest sweets.’
—Mother Teresa
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‘Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.’
—Nietzsche
At a round table they sat, called a truce
to discuss the indestructible world
and meditate upon eternal things...
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‘Religiously, one does not proceed from the simple in order then to become interesting, witty, profound, a poet, a philosopher.
No, it is just the opposite; here one begins and then becomes more and more simple.’
#Kierkegaard
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If you want to become full,
Let yourself be empty.
If you want to be reborn,
Let yourself die.
If you want to be given everything
Give everything up.
—Lao Tzu
#thursdaymorning
The older I get and observe popular culture, the better I appreciate Plato’s criticism of art and its ability to destroy the moral fabric of society.
Art is a powerful illusion and, thus, potentially dangerous.
We are, after all, what we consume.
“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”
—Ilya Kaminsky
Thank you, @GaryLachman for alerting me to this very interesting book, "Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought"
https://t.co/DUH1dY6N7e
Featuring essays on: #Goethe, #Nietzsche, #Rilke,
#Kafka and #KarlKraus