Ready must thou be to burn thyself in thine own flame; how couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes!

-- Nietzsche

"I want to interpentrate all that lives, in no matter what form it reveals itself. I want to sow it with love, but I also want to smash the ossified, if need be, for the sake of the creative spirit... I do not want someone simply to accept our insights and join us on that account. An insight (as I understand it) must be attained through necessity, ( Read more... )

Ashleigh's mildly amusing but strangely apt typos:

Bile Bible
Demonocracy Democracy

edit: i've now hit 1362 words on philosophy essay. half of it is in point form and the ideas not nearly fully explored, and the other half is rough philosophical ranting... but I am now confident that I will have something I can hand in, even if it's only worth, ( Read more... )

Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The sun is warm, the sky is clear ( Read more... )

"A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk."
- James Joyce

No picture today - i had a job interview and went to a belly dancing class, neither of which lend themselves to photos.

I think the interview went well, but only time will tell

For pity, more than any other feeling, is a “learned” emotion; a child will have it least of all. Pity comes from the infinite accumulations of man’s memory, from the anguish, pain, and suffering of life, from the full deposit of human experience, from the forgotten faces, the lost men, and from the million strange and haunting visages of time. ( Read more... )

"All the aching muscles and the hunger in my belly were bad enough, and the surroundant dark rocks, the fact that there is nothing there to soothe you with kisses and soft words, but just to be sitting there meditating and praying for the world with another earnest young man - 'twere good enough to have been born just to die, as we all are. ( Read more... )

"...Like, silly behaviourists of the sociology and computer sciences today are more interested, mind you, in measuring the reactions to the pain of life, and in pinpointing the cause of pain on their fellow humans, i.e., society, than in pinning it down once and for all on what it come from: birth. Even metaphysical gurus and philosopher prophets ( Read more... )

Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope - but not for us.
-Franz Kafka

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way ( Read more... )