“Rituals are symbolic acts. They represent, and pass on, the values and orders on which a community is based. They bring forth a community without communication; today, however, communication without community prevails.”

—Byung-Chul Han ...

“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

― Carson McCullers ...

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”

—D.H. Lawrence ...

“This simple observation has nothing to do with cultural pessimism – nor with any optimism either, of course; for the darkening of the world, the flight of the gods, the destruction of the earth, the reduction of human beings to a mass, the hatred and mistrust of everything creative and free has already reached such proportions throughout the whole earth that such childish categories as pessimism and optimism have long become laughable.”

— Heidegger ...

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”

― Soren Kierkegaard

"Culture is a kind of mass hallucination, designed for middle-aged people. Because culture works best for them, you know, when you're less than middle-aged you're trying to figure out the rules of this collective hallucination, if you're past middle-age and you have been paying attention you know it's bullshit so you don't care anymore."

- Terence McKenna ...

“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”

—La Rochefoucauld

“No other English poet had touched me quite so closely as Wordsworth. All cultivated men delight in Shakespeare; he is the universal genius; but Wordsworth’s poetry has more the character of a message, and a message special and personal, to a comparatively small circle of readers.”

— John Burroughs

“How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.”

― Philip Larkin

“I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.”

—Leo Tolstoy

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

- Nikola Tesla

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“Man is a strange, inauthentic creature who has very little contact with real Existence. Intellectuals cut themselves off from reality by trapping themselves in a world of concepts; ordinary men are cut off from reality because they are so self-absorbed, so involved in the pettiness of everyday existence. They live in a meaningless world because they find it so difficult to mean anything.”

— Colin Wilson
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“Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I’ve got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought.”

—Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
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