Waterside Prompt Institute
809 subscribers
341 photos
25 videos
1 file
3 links
Again we go West
Download Telegram
whatever evil deed has been done by me, may I alone reap its bitter fruit.
if you are at war, call it war;
and give your enemies no peace
the universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of one honest man
Turmoil is fundamental to my entire study; it is the very essence of my work. But the time has come to strive towards a clarity of consciousness
the primal sympathy
which having been must ever be
let him but begin to imagine, to think, to try to anything worth doing; and the engine-turned precision is lost at once
out come all his roughness, all his dullness, all his incapability;
shame upon shame, failure upon failure, pause after pause:
but out comes the whole majesty of him also
and we know the height of it only when we see the clouds settling upon him
What can I give Him,
Poor as I am? —
If I were a Shepherd
I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man
I would do my part, —
Yet what I can I give Him, —
Give my heart.
philosophy, as I have understood it hitherto, is a voluntary retirement into regions of ice and mountain-peaks
man has nothing good with which to recompense Heaven
aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment
few people are likely to have read my book from beginning to end. They don’t have to,
and I hope the chancellor didn’t.
a nation may beget its own barbarian invaders
the ceaseless unmasking of others led the unmasker into self-delusion
victory has defeated you
Everywhere we see that men do not go mad by dreaming.