People say, “Artist, study nature!” But it is no small matter to develop what is noble out of what is common, beauty out of what lacks form.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2020
Author: parallelaesthetics
Humans desire demise, more specifically their demise.
James Ellis
2020
How I wish I didn’t know anything about myself and this world!
Emil Cioran
Undated
Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
J.G Ballard
2020
I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the other the inner world of the mind meet and merge.
J.G.Ballard
Philosophy may not neglect the multifariousness of the world — the fairies dance, and Christ is nailed to the cross. Alfred North Whitehead
2021
As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.
Emil Cioran
2021
Great joys come from contemplating noble deeds.
Democritus
2021
One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2021
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
Emil Cioran
2016
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