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)
“I hold three treasures close to my heart. The first is love; the next,...”
– Lao Tzu (via thelittlesea)