The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
- Martin Heidegger
- Martin Heidegger
“Our dreams are chains of symbolic scenes and images in place of the language of poetic narration. They paraphrase our experiences, expectations or circumstances with such poetic boldness and definiteness that in the morning we are always astonished at ourselves when we recall them.”
—Human, All Too Human, “The Wanderer and His Shadow,” §194 (edited excerpt).
—Human, All Too Human, “The Wanderer and His Shadow,” §194 (edited excerpt).
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
- Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
- Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Forwarded from tomrum
"He pained, shifting his attention toward the mirror across the road. Back into his daydream. The spliff burned his fingers the second he drank, and he tossed it toward the gutter. The smoke burned into his eyes, blinding him. As he blinked through the tears, the pain began to recede. Back down the promenade and homeward bound, as he approached the intersection of Brooklyn and Lakeshore, a flock of geese burst from the darkness and flew, shrieking into what was left of the evening."
“If anyone nowadays ventured to say ‘he who is not for me is against me,’ they would at once have everyone against them.”
—Human, All Too Human, “The Wanderer and His Shadow,” §208
—Human, All Too Human, “The Wanderer and His Shadow,” §208
We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.
- Schopenhauer, Arthur, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer
- Schopenhauer, Arthur, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer