ponder

“The occultists of the ancient world had a most remarkable understanding of the principle of evolution. They recognized all life as being in various stages of becoming.”
–Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages

ponder

“Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal existence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.”

— George Santayana

quoth the madman

"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
- Jean Cocteau

quoth the madman

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."
- James Baldwin

ponderous

"I don’t want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it."
- Georges Bataille 

overheard in my head

What if the ubiquitous selfie is our Internet generation’s version of Proust’s madeleine? In search of the intangible self through the articulated representation of the physical being?

literacki

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

~Henry Miller, Sexus

quoth the madman

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

quoth the madman

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

~Vincent van Gogh

pondered

Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean.

~Henry Miller

ponder

 

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

!John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

ponder

 

Say not a word in death’s favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man’s house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead.

~Homer, The Odyssey

quoth the madman

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven’t.

~Thomas Edison

literacki

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I’m sure I can’t tell you whether the fate’s good or evil. I don’t die — I don’t fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I’m just not there.

~E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

ponderous

"Not long ago I was sleeping in a cabin in the woods and was awoken in the middle of the night by the sounds of a struggle between two animals. Cries of terror and extreme agony rent the night, intermingled with the sounds of jaws snapping bones and flesh being torn from limbs. One animal was being savagely attacked, killed and then devoured by another.
A clearer case of a horrible event in nature, a natural evil, has never been presented to me. It seemed to me self-evident that the natural law that animals must savagely kill and devour each other in order to survive was an evil natural law and that the obtaining of this law was sufficient evidence that God did not exist. If I held a certain epistemological theory about “basic beliefs”, I might conclude from this experience that my intuition that there is no God co-existing with this horror was a “basic belief” and thus that I am epistemically entitled to be an atheist without needing to justify this intuition."                      

~Quentin Smith

quoth the madman

"My philosophy: it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier."

~Anthony Hopkins

quoth the madman

"One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness."
- Giorgio de Chirico