fairly honorable defeat

everything that is worthless shuns the light

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Kafka to Brod, 'If you could kill yourself, you more or less don't have to.'

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making the body search

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i'm a boomer

[laurel wreaths against the sultry heat @symbolicdeath]

“Thus, the question was asked, “Does existence [Dasein] belong to God?” and “existence” was thus treated as something purely positive, something ultimate and excellent. But we shall see later that existence…is too lowly for the Idea, and unworthy of God.” Hegel

[Simone Weil @simone_says_en]

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin.

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@madsadgladmad i read this before learning about the view feature and thought you were doing conceptual analysis on the word “view”

[Simone Weil @simone_says_en]

There are two atheisms, of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

[FAZ Feuilleton @FAZ_Feuilleton]

Eines der ertragreichsten Leben in der deutschen Philosophie ist zu Ende gegangen: Dieter Henrich war noch bis ins hohe Alter ein produktiver Autor. https://t.co/CMnyLh0mMP

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Derrida on the name “Hegel”

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“Like pain, insanity is seen by Hegel as a “privilege.” Only man can grasp himself in that complete abstraction of “I”, which is a condition for the possibility of insanity no less than of the objective consciousness.” Greene, Hegel on the Soul

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@jordan_castro2 “…without knowing that love is both a distinguishing and a sublation of the distinction, one speaks emptily of it. This is the simple, eternal idea.” Hegel

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“The high-temperature fusing power of the creative imagination, eloquently described by the Romantics, is the reward of the sober truthful mind which, as it reflects & searches, constantly says no & no & no to the prompt of easy visions of self-protective self-promoting fantasy’

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

For heaven’s sake, dearest, you to whom my life is devoted, take care of yourself!

Franz Kafka, 1912.

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Iris Murdoch

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damn…

[Simone Weil @simone_says_en]

Affliction which forces us to attach ourselves to the most wretched objects exposes in all its misery the true character of attachment. In this way the necessity for detachment is made more obvious.

[blake butler @blakebutler]

No matter who you think you are, calling cormac mccarthy a minor writer or portentous or inconclusive is like diplo calling aphex twin boring. To quote gian: "As if you could ever" (i know it's dumb to comment on shit like this but also i'm tired of the prissy bullshit hegemony)

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“The image of a morally perfect but not all-powerful Goodness seems to me better to express some ultimate (inexpressible) truth about our condition.” Iris Murdoch

[Simone Weil @simone_says_en]

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

[Simone Weil @simone_says_en]

I always believed that the instant of death is the center and object of life. I used to think that, for those who live as they should, it is the instant when, for an infinitesimal fraction of time, pure truth, naked, certain, and eternal enters the soul.

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“When a man has thus directed his thoughts and desires toward beauty of the mind and spirit he will suddenly receive the vision, which comes by grace, of the Form of Beauty itself, absolute and untainted and pure.” Iris Murdoch