ponder

"If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave."
-  Emily Brontë, from Wuthering Heights

ponder

"Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea — all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life." - Friedrich Nietzsche, from Human, All Too Human

truthiness

"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."        
  ~Aristotle

ponderous

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."

~Niccolo Machiavelli

ponderous

“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §169.

ponder

"(Political Correctness is the exemplary liberal form of the politics of fear)."
- Zizek

ponder

"The male preoccupation with the actual phallus is in stark contrast with the lack of importance attributed to this work of art by the average woman."

-Paul Verhaeghe

ponder

What is unique about you, what makes you “you” but without definition (because it tends to shock despite the truth of its roots) will appear to you as symptom so long as it is caged, barred, and forbidden from conscious enjoyment.

ponder

 

There must be a horribly intractable separation between lover and beloved to remember just what it is that one alone desires.

pondered

"Maybe it’s not in the perfection of life that things make sense, but in the chaos."

- Rachel Van Dyken, Ruin

ponderous

“And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.”

—   Joyce Carol Oates

ponder

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”

—   Sylvia Plath

ars poetica

"Voyage upon life’s sea,
To yourself be true,
And, whatever your lot may be,
Paddle your own Canoe."
- Sarah T. Bolton

ponder

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ponder

"I love mankind, he said, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

quoth the madman

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 

ponderous

"With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights."

~Nikola Tesla

quoth the madman

"They say Thales was studying the stars, Theodorus, and gazing aloft, when he fell into a well; and a witty and amusing Thracian servant-girl made fun of him because, she said, he was wild to know about what was up in the sky but failed to see what was in front of him and under his feet. The same joke applies to all who spend their lives in philosophy."

~Plato

literacki

"With my last breath, I’ll exhale my love for you. I hope it’s a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me.
"

Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I’ve ever written, and it still sucks

ponder

"Then knowledge is to be found not in the experiences but in the process of reasoning about them; it is here, seemingly not in the experiences, that it is possible to grasp being and truth."

Plato

literacki

“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.”

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

 

literacki

"It has been found again.
What? – Eternity.
It is the sea mingled with the sun."

- Arthur Rimbaud, “L’Eternité”

literacki

“We fell into silence, both of us keeping our own secrets of what we’d suffered in the other’s absence. I wondered if we were trying to protect each other or simply didn’t want to admit to our own fears and weaknesses.”

 ~Richelle Mead, Silver Shadows