January 2011
99 posts
“It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all...”
– John Steinbeck (via bunnymitford) (via earlyfrost)
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“We live our lives in anticipation of the next hit of experience as if the one...”
– Joseph Goldstein (via politefight)
“You are free, so choose; in other words, invent. No general code of ethics can...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via human-voices)
“We live our lives in anticipation of the next hit of experience as if the one...”
– Joseph Goldstein (via politefight)
“Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for...”
– Watchmen Chapter VI: The Abyss Gazes Also.
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“In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self, I instinctively seeking to reconstitute that blissful union which I experienced so rarely i took it to be supernatural and gave it holy Name thus made hymn laments of longing and litanies of trumphancy of Self over...
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Liberties
“Far from time and space, man has gone astray: slender as a hair, vast as the dawn, his ears foaming, his two eyes rolling, and his hands outstretched to find his way which is nonexistent.” La Liberté éclairant le monde. La Planète des singes (Franklin Schaffner, 1968) frenchcinema:
Made in U.S.A (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
(via fuckyeahjean-lucgodard)
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“Freedom is not a gift received from a State or a leader but a possession to be...”
– Albert Camus (via azspot)
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“Paris is aflame in a hail of bullets on this August night. In this immense...”
– Albert Camus became editor of Combat in 1943, editing the newspaper for four years. His columns and reports often called upon people to act in accordance with strict moral principals. It was during this period that Camus formalized his philosophy that human life was sacred, no matter how...
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“For ‘being’ is abstraction, as is even ‘the I’. Only I...”
– Max Stirner (Submitted by psionic)
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What’s happening in Egypt, explained. Also — Al-Jazeera’s twitter updates re: Egypt.
(via evanfleischer)
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her dead husband Carl Sagan
dirtythrift-deactivated20120111 asked: Have you read The Metamorphosis?
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“Human and animal mental processes look just as they can be expected to look if...”
– Prof. Victor Stenger (2007)
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“Our ‘minds’, ‘souls’, ‘spirit’ and...”
– “Souls do not Exist: Evidence from Science & Philosophy Against Mind-Body Dualism” by Vexen Crabtree (2007).
Consciousness is a product of the Universe, and not the other way round. Biology as the cause of life is also the cause of consciousness. There is simply no reason to presume...
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“Aren’t you ashamed to say that?”
– Wittgenstein’s response to Metaphysical solipsism (Only I exist) as opposed to Epistemological solipsism (I can know only that I exist).
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter...”
– Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way, David Foster Wallace (via ourcatastrophe)
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“He who sees everything as nothing but the Self, and the Self in everything he...”
– Isha Upanishad, sloka 6
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“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something...”
– Franz Kafka (via segmentsofsoul)
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“This is precisely the nature of belief, for continually present as the nullified...”
– Kierkegaard 1985, 81.
belief is not a form of knowledge, but a free act, an expression of will through which uncertainty and doubt can be overcome.
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“Men of today seem to feel more acutely than ever the paradox of their condition....”
– Simone de Beauvoir
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“Empty-handed I entered the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going —...”
– Kozan Ichikyo (via slychedelic)
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“I have noticed that even people who think everything is predestined and that we...”
– Stephen Hawking (via nickelcobalt)
“A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic, inanimate structure...”
– Food Inc. (via veganlove)
“Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have...”
– Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan (via a-space-odyssey)
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“Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and...”
– Albert Camus
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“Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and...”
– Albert Camus
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Philosophy Bro: Existentialism →
Existentialism is a relatively broad movement, like empiricism or rationalism, that has a rich and wide-ranging history, so much so that people debate what is and isn’t existential. But here’s a brief history of the roots: Sartre coined the phrase “existence precedes essence”, which has since been a rallying cry for existentialists. That is, there is no essential quality...
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“Why, if it’s possible to spend this span
of existence as laurel, a little...”
– Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke (C. F. MacIntyre, translator) 