No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
H.P. Lovecraft
2022
Tag: Philosophy
Facing a landscape annihilated by the light, to remain serene supposes a temper I do not have. The sun is my purveyor of black thoughts; and summer the season when I have always reconsidered my relations with this world and with myself, to the greatest prejudice of both.
Emil Cioran
2022
There is simply no room left for ‘freedom from the tyranny of government’ since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare.
William S. Burroughs
2015 (editted 2022)
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2015
Because of the way that myth takes it for granted that miracles are always happening, the waking life of a mythically inspired people — the ancient Greeks, for instance — more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2022
As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad. Emil Cioran
2022
The most damaging prejudice is the idea that any kind of research into nature might be laid under an interdict.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2021
There exists in the world a single path along which no one can go except you: whither does it lead? Do not ask, go along it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2022
Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.
H.P. Lovecraft
2022
Friedrich Nietzsche
2022
Parallel Aesthetics 