“Mature manhood: that means to have resdicscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.”
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
current read.
“…all company is bad company except the company of one’s equals…”
“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
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Had a fun time at the art gallery today @chris-reads-books
“The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.”
– Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange (via chris-reads-books)
“But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
– Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco (via chris-reads-books)
“It’s a thankless job, telling people it’s a hard, hard Universe they’re in.”
– Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan (via chris-reads-books)
“Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via hemingwayslemonade)
“But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
– Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco (via chris-reads-books)