A Noiseless Patient Spider

"Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:46:15 -0400

“Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.”

- Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (via petrichour)

"But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:34:04 -0400

“But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously…”

- Julio Cortázar, “Hopscotch” (via lifeinpoetry)

"Philosophia Perennis—the phrase was coined by Leibniz; but the thing—the metaphysic that recognizes..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:50:18 -0400

“Philosophia Perennis—the phrase was coined by Leibniz; but the thing—the metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds; the psychology that finds in the soul something similar to, or even identical with, divine Reality; the ethic that places man’s final end in the knowledge of the immanent and transcendent Ground of all being—the thing is immemorial and universal. Rudiments of the Perennial Philosophy may be found among the traditionary lore of primitive peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions.”

- Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy (via ludimagister)

micaceous: Pablo Picasso and his cat in his house in Vallauris,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:24:55 -0400

micaceous:

Pablo Picasso and his cat in his house in Vallauris, 1954

"Speech is irreversible; that is its fatality. What has been said cannot be unsaid, except by adding..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:47:16 -0400

“Speech is irreversible; that is its fatality. What has been said cannot be unsaid, except by adding to it: to correct, here, is, oddly enough, to continue. In speaking, I can never erase, annul; all I can do is say “I am erasing, annulling, correcting,” in short, speak some more. This very singular annulation-by-addition I shall call “stammering.” Stammering is a message spoiled twice over: it is difficult to understand, but with an effort it can be understood all the same; it is really neither in language nor outside it: it is a noise of language comparable to the knocks by which a motor lets it be known that it is not working properly; such is precisely the meaning of the misfire, the auditory sign of a failure which appears in the functioning of the object. Stammering (of the motor or of the subject) is, in short, a fear: I am afraid the motor is going to stop.”

- Roland Barthes, “The Rustle of Language” (via heteroglossia)

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:58:25 -0400

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

- Ernest Hemingway (via manchannel)

"So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:04:45 -0400

“So you plant your own garden and
decorate your own soul, instead of waiting
for someone to bring you flowers.”

- Jorge Luis Borges (via seraphmachine)

"Poetry is made in a bed like love Its rumpled sheets are the dawn of things"

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:49:22 -0400

“Poetry is made in a bed like love
Its rumpled sheets are the dawn of things”

- André Breton, from “On the Road to San Romano”, in The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry, trans. Mary Ann Caws (via litverve)

"As soon as it is remembered that philosophizing does not consist in addressing fantastic beings in..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:51:41 -0400

“As soon as it is remembered that philosophizing does not consist in addressing fantastic beings in fantastic language, but that those to whom the philosopher addresses himself are human beings; so that we have not to determine fantastically in abstracto whether a persistent striving is something lower than the systematic finality, or vice versa, but that the question is what existing human beings, insofar as they are existing beings, must needs be content with: then it will be evident that the idea of a persistent striving is the only view of life that does not carry with it an inevitable disillusionment. Even if a man has attained to the highest, the repetition by which life receives content (if one is to escape retrogression or avoid becoming fantastic) will again constitute a persistent striving; because here again finality is moved further on, and postponed. It is with this view of life, as it is with the Platonic interpretation of love as a want; and the principle that is not only he is in want who desires something he does not have, but also he who desires the continued possession of what he has. In a speculative-fantastic sense we have a positive finality in the System, and in an aesthetic-fantastic sense we have one in the fifth act of the drama. But this sort of finality is valid only for fantastic beings.”

- Søren Kierkegaard as Johannes Climacus in Concluding Unscientific Postscript (via existenti-al)

fourwindsshotgun: immolator: i think zizek already gave us the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:38:12 -0400

fourwindsshotgun:

immolator:

i think zizek already gave us the best reply to richard dawkins’ bullshit about philosophy

Doesn’t this also match up with how Deleuze defines philosophy somewhere? “the science of determining the conditions of a problem”?

gsfsoul: Albert Einstein in Fuzzy Slippers how can you just...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:36:33 -0400

gsfsoul:

Albert Einstein in Fuzzy Slippers

how can you just scroll past this you can’t

i tried to but as you can see i couldnt

"In a world where all is unstable, and nought can endure, but is swept onwards at once in the..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:23:14 -0400

““In a world where all is unstable, and nought can endure, but is swept onwards at once in the hurrying whirlpool of change; where a man, if he is to keep erect at all, must always be advancing and moving, like an acrobat on a rope—in such a world, happiness in inconceivable. How can it dwell where, as Plato says, continual Becoming and never Being is the sole form of existence? In the first place, a man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with masts and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.””

- Arthur Schopenhauer (via nietzsche-spoke-thus)

"You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:54:12 -0400

“You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing. Permit yourself to flow and overflow, allow for the rise in temperature, all the expansions and intensifications. Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. If it seems to you that I move in a world of certitudes, you, par contre, must benefit from the great privilege of youth, which is that you move in a world of mysteries. But both must be ruled by faith.”

- Anais Nin

As I’ve said many times before, Anais Nin is the author that made me start writing myself. I’m fascinated by her relentless, fearless exploration of herself. She was a tender, flawed, fascinating woman. She left behind tender, flawed, fascinating work. (via clementinevonradics)

"And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire."

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:14:23 -0400

“And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”

- Anna Akhmatova, You Will Hear Thunder, trans. D. M. Thomas (via proustitute)

wonderfulambiguity: Shikanosuke Yagaki, Grasshopper on wall,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:03:07 -0400

wonderfulambiguity:

Shikanosuke Yagaki, Grasshopper on wall, 1930s

"I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:00:00 -0400

““I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.””

- Ray Bradbury (via avec-des-sentiments)

fashun-n: Frida G

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:57:56 -0400

fashun-n:

Frida G

wonderfulambiguity: André Kertész, Clock of the Académie...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:56:31 -0400

wonderfulambiguity:

André Kertész, Clock of the Académie Française, Paris, 1932

"Deleuze et moi ne pensons pas du tout à la mort de la philosophie, nous pensons que la philosophie..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:55:06 -0400

“Deleuze et moi ne pensons pas du tout à la mort de la philosophie, nous pensons que la philosophie se fait, qu’elle est en mouvement et que, même à travers d’autres cultures que la culture occidentale - comme des formes de sagesse par exemple - la philosophie est quelque chose d’essentiel à l’existence humaine.”

- Félix Guattari. La philosophie est essentielle à l’existence humaine.

(via avec-des-sentiments)

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