February 2012
2 posts
The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a...
– Adolfo Bioy Casares (via mythologyofblue)
January 2012
18 posts
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
– Aristotle (via kari-shma)
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...
– Carson McCullers (via musingsinfemininity)
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via doyourememberpassion)
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless...
– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
all things are subject to interpretation; whichever interpretation prevails at a...
– friedrich nietzsche (via rhea137)
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
– Confucius (via lucifelle)
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...
– Franz Kafka (via ellavalon)
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making...
– Aldous Huxley (via questionquestions)
Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
– Emil Cioran (via comfortably-dumb)
December 2011
22 posts
I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value....
– ― Robert Walser, The Tanners (via ratak-monodosico)
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
– Erich Fromm (via corrumpo)
for me
obedience to another is the decay
of self.
for though every being is...
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...
– Franz Kafka (via slychedelic)
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is...
– Noam Chomsky (via thelittlephilosopher)
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
– Virginia Woolf (via human-voices)
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the...
– C.G. Jung (via thelittlephilosopher)
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
– Virginia Woolf (via human-voices)
Where do the words go
when we have said them?
– Margaret Atwood, The Small Cabin (via human-voices)
Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.
– Carl Sandburg (via human-voices)
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows...
– Lao Tzu (via heartmindspirit)
November 2011
30 posts
One must first learn to control oneself before attempting to harmonize and...
– Rod Kobayashi Sensei on Masakatsu Agatsu - True victory is victory over oneself (via mnmal)
‘Self-knowledge’? A contradiction in terms.
– E. M. Cioran (via rhea137) (via invisiblestories) (via austinimus)
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest...
– Aristotle (via thelittlephilosopher)
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
– Bertrand Russell (via kari-shma)