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Again we go West
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I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
MY Spectre around me night and day
Like a wild beast guards my way;
My Emanation far within
Weeps incessantly for my sin.
What good, after all, is being right unless it allows you to do wrong?
For this is an experience which is characteristic of a philosopher, this wondering: this is where philosophy begins and nowhere else. And the man who made Iris the child of Thaumas was perhaps no bad genealogist
The charm of knowledge would be small, were it not much shame has to be overcome on the way to it.
One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.
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"If the Era of Empire is over, let the Era of Surrender not replace it..."
Your thoughts, he said, are the reflection of my own.

The gods are not magicians who transform themselves, neither do they deceive mankind in any way.

I grant that.

Then, although we are admirers of Homer, we do not admire the lying dream which Zeus sends to Agamemnon
Love takes even Sol prisoner, who rules all the stars with his light.
Geometry with its bias toward measurement and space imposed restrictions on a concern with time.
The spread of a money economy strengthened an interest in numbers and arithmetic and in turn in mystery religions in conflict with the established Appollonic religion.
[Wilhelm Bendz-1828]
The beauty of aging wood and tightly thatched roofs was sacrificed to the fireproof banality of concrete
Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
And this huge Castle, standing here sublime,
I love to see the look with which it braves,
Cased in the unfeeling armour of old time,
The lightning, the fierce wind, the trampling waves.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.