Here we are... in solitude

[Lehtonen @LehtonenThe]

Taira Clan Saga / Kenji Mizoguchi

[Joseph de Maistre on X @FMClausewitz]

“The more is written, the weaker the constitution. Laws are only declarations of rights, and rights are only declared when they are attacked; so that the multiplicity of written constitutional laws, only evinces the number of shocks and the danger of destruction.

[Here we are... in solitude @HotiSophia]

@Kulambq Peirce remains criminally neglected.

[Carlos Cano @segobrigense]

Stroheim | Sternberg

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

In all saying… there is hearing, and in hearing itself, at the very bottom of it, a listening. Which means: perhaps it is necessary that sense not be content to make sense (or to be *logos*), but that it want also to resound.

— Jean-Luc Nancy, Listening (tr. Charlotte Mandell)

[Ronald Christ @RonaldCHRIST12]

“It is always in people’s ordinary everyday infinitely recurring actions that [the gentle] law most surely forms the fulcrum, for these actions are the lasting the underlying ones, like the millions of fibrils of the tree of life.”

Adalbert Stifter, Motley Stones

[Álmos @ThaddeusPapist]

"He was good, and the good can never have any jealousy of anything. And being free from jealousy, he desired that all things should be as like himself as they could be."

- Plato

[Lehtonen @LehtonenThe]

Princess Yang Kwei-fei / Kenji Mizoguchi

[The Forest of Symbols Podcast @AldousAsterion]

The 9 Humiliations that Shaped Me

[Matthew Housiaux @mjhousiaux12]

James Merrill: “The splinters rainbowing ruin on the floor”

[Lee Spratley @BugmanMD]

A ton its power comes from what it takes for us to get there, but yeah, PARADISO is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read.

[Here we are... in solitude @HotiSophia]

@SimonSimplicio Dosage doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere. Wonder about much smaller dosages than the standard 3mg (which some still find effective)

[Ryan Haecker @RyanHaecker]

"One could thus say that imagination is the power to grasp wholes consisting of an infinite number of absolutely opposed parts, and that the power of judgment analyses the absolutely opposed elements that have been combined by the imagination; in other words, judgment is the power to grasp what is simple. These two powers are reciprocally related to each other: there can be nothing simple apart from a whole and no whole without an infinite number of simple elements... Nature in its entirety is a product of the imagination. How is this possible? It is possible only insofar as an entire line is constructed all at once and not the infinite parts of the same, one after another."

- Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Jena lectures of 1796, Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy

[Democritus Sr @DemocritusSr]

A bit of blank verse, from an abandoned longer #poem, forgotten

[Girardism @Girardism]

“I think most people believe their own lies; most people are sincere. Sincerity is the cheapest good in the world. Only our enemies are insincere, but we all are always sincere at all times and have never been insincere. It's the same thing as the unconsciousness of scapegoating.”

— René Girard, a 1994 talk

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Guy Davenport with this slant rhyming scheme linking the title to the final.

[RobertAllenPoet @RobertAllenPoet]

Arthur Rimbaud tr by John Ashbery

[C. S. Peirce @CSPeirceSpeaks]

A Genuine Sign is a Transuasional Sign, or Symbol, which is a sign which owes its significant virtue to a character which can only be realized by the aid of its Interpretant. Any utterance of speech is an example. If the sounds were originally in part iconic,
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[C. S. Peirce @CSPeirceSpeaks]

In consequence of every sign determining an Interpretant, which is itself a sign, we have sign overlying sign. The consequence of this, in its turn, is that a sign may, in its immediate exterior, be of one of the three classes,but may at once determine a sign of another class.
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