Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life.
Immanuel Kant
2025
Tag: Pessimism
If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
François de La Rochefoucauld
2025
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer
2025
The kingdom of heaven after death, nirvana and absolute nothingness are one and the same.
Philipp Mainländer
2025
Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
Søren Kierkegaard
2025
To her perfection all of beauty tends.
Dante Alighieri
2025
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart.
Søren Kierkegaard
2025
The burden of the incommunicable.
Thomas De Quincey
2023
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.
Emil Cioran
2024
So it is that after each night, facing a new day, the impossible necessity of dealing with it fills us with dread; exiled in light as if the world had just started, inventing the sun, we flee from tears—just one of which would be enough to wash us out of time.
Emil Cioran
2024
Parallel Aesthetics 