. . .Music |
Music: a spirit which appears extraneous to the world of appearances, which reaches out for another truer reality the essence of which searches beyond the transitory facade of this "world" to a realm ...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:22:00 GMT |
Liberum Arbitrium Indifferentiae |
The masses crave the voluptuous pleasures of the penitent. We eagerly await the gift of chastisement form the hands of demagogues whose predatory instincts offer a respite from our 'ennui'. The succes...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:21:00 GMT |
Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of God, |
Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of God, which hathmade all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine, therefore all nations are mad. + Book of Jeremiah ( 51 : 7 ) +
Man has e...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:26:00 GMT |
Lewis & Sorel |
Absence of responsibility, an automatic and stereotyped rhythm, is what men most desire for themselves. All struggle has for its end relief or repose. A rhythmic movement is restful: but consc...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:11:00 GMT |
"And the people?" excerpt from: E. M. Cioran |
"And the people?" It will be asked. The thinker or thehistorian who employs the word without irony disqualifieshimself. It is all too clear what "the people" are destinedfor: to suffer events and r...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:06:00 GMT |
Selections from: José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) |
Life is at the start a chaos in which one is lost. The individual suspects this, but he is frightened at finding himself face to face with this terrible reality, and tries to cover it over with a cur...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:10:00 GMT |
excerpts from: History And Utopia - E. M. Cioran (cont.) |
By banishing the irrational and the irreparable, utopia further sets itself against tragedy, paroxysm and quintessence of history. In a perfect city, all conflict would cease; human wills would be thr...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:55:00 GMT |
excerpts from: History And Utopia - E. M. Cioran |
. . . tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself. Generalize the phenomenon and the Caes...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:24:00 GMT |
To sorrow we are born. It is out of sadness that men have made this world beautiful. |
Suffering - which comes from the collision between con-sciousness and unconsciousness - is cured, not by submerging oneself in the unconscious, but by raising onself to the highest consciousness and ...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:05:00 GMT |
Benjamin & Eliot |
Odd NerdrumMankind which in Homer's time was an object of contemplation for the Olympic Gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destru...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:15:00 GMT |
