February 2012
150 posts
“In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I...”
– Deepak Chopra
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“Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no...”
– Alan Watts
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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”
—Human, All Too Human, “Assorted Opinions and Maxims,” §77.
“You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Rant
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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“I see it all perfectly: there are two possibilities, one can either do this or...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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“A truth that has merely been learnt adheres to us only as an artificial limb, a...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer, “On Thinking For Yourself”
nordism asked: You're a girl who reads Nietzsche?! Marry me?
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“If we tear out the last pages of the New Testament, then what we see set forth...”
– Albert Camus - Notebooks
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“What is inspiring: the terrible loneliness. As a remedy to life in society, I...”
– Albert Camus - Notebooks
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“More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of...”
– Albert Camus - Notebooks
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“Oh my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the...”
– Pindar — Pythian iii
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“I mean to say that the world is overfull of beautiful things but nevertheless...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science I-IV (1882)
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“It is selfish to experience one’s own judgment as a universal law; and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science I-IV (1882)
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“But why do you listen to your conscience? And what gives you the right to...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science I-IV (1882)
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“Founders of religion…thirst after things that go against reason, and they...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science I-IV (1882)
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“Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science I-IV (1882)
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“For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science I-IV (1882)
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“…suffering, in general, is the rule.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Every man is born alone — in the world, but alone; comes through the parents,...”
– Osho - via http://nirvikalpa.tumblr.com/
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“My love,
We have found each other
Thirsty and we have
Drunk up all the water...”
– Pablo Neruda
searching-4-nirvana asked: Love the philosophy! Do you mainly just post existentialists?
garrettsmarchedustrange asked: Q: How many existentialists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Two. One to screw it in and one to observe how the light bulbitself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjectivereality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward amaudlin cosmos of nothingness.
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“Only dare to believe in yourselves — in yourselves and in your entrails!...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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“And let everything that can break upon our truths — break! There is many a...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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“Truly, I say to you: Unchanging good and evil does not exist! From out of...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have...”
– Søren Kierkegaard
get-what-you-paid-for asked: How's life?
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“Wherever you are, remember yourself, that you are. This consciousness that you...”
– Osho
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“Here, at this point of extreme danger for the will, art draws near as the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - The Birth of Tragedy
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For all of the knowledge I claim to have concerning philosophy, there still remains a single, great mystery — love.