Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.
- Luigi Pirandello
- Luigi Pirandello
“I am a law only for my kind, not a law for all.”
—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Four, “The Last Supper” (edited excerpt).
—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Four, “The Last Supper” (edited excerpt).
Early color photographs of Antarctica, circa 1915, by Australian adventurer Frank Hurley.
“Man is not simply a product of objective circumstances: we all have this margin of freedom in deciding how we subjectivize these objective circumstances which, of course, determine us, how we react to them by constructing our own universe.”
— Slavoj Žižek. The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology. (2012)
— Slavoj Žižek. The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology. (2012)
For our own past is covered by the currents of action,
But the torment of others remains an experience unqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition.
People change, and smile: but the agony abides.
But the torment of others remains an experience unqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition.
People change, and smile: but the agony abides.