Sociological Imagination

[talestalesof]

Embrace: The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject’s dream of total union with the loved being.

Roland Barthes, Lover’s Discourse  (via sagmoonn)

[kachcha]

Traditional clothing from Šumadija, central Serbia

Ношња из Шумадије, централна Србија

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[mollitheia]

Such is the Nihilist universe, in which there is neither up nor down, right nor wrong, true nor false, because there is no longer any point of orientation. Where there was once God, there is now nothing; where there were once authority, order, certainty, faith, there are now anarchy, confusion, arbitrary and unprincipled action, doubt and despair.

Fr. Seraphim Rose, Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age (1994)

[mollitheia]

What is truth? To the person for whom this is a vital, burning question, the compromise of liberalism and humanism becomes impossible. He who wants and with his whole being has asked this, can never again be satisfied with what the world is content to take in place of truth.

Fr. Seraphim Rose, Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age (1994)

[all-about-sociology]

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[renaissance-art]

I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves.

Niccolo Machiavelli  (via renaissance-art)

[asking-jude]

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster. For when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[escapeintowords]

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Niccolo Machiavelli (via escapeintowords)

[stealing-beauty-deactivated2020]

A man attaches himself to woman not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Simone de Beauvoir (via stealing-beauty)

[lovelustquotes]

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Kahlil Gibran (via lovelustquotes)

[quotemadness]

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them.

Alain de Botton (via quotemadness)

[scientificphilosopher]

We need to swap the Romantic view for a tragic (and at points comedic) awareness that every human will frustrate, anger, annoy, madden and disappoint us — and we will (without any malice) do the same to them. There can be no end to our sense of emptiness and incompleteness. But none of this is unusual or grounds for divorce. Choosing whom to commit ourselves to is merely a case of identifying which particular variety of suffering we would most like to sacrifice ourselves for. […] The person who is best suited to us is not the person who shares our every taste (he or she doesn’t exist), but the person who can negotiate differences in taste intelligently — the person who is good at disagreement. Rather than some notional idea of perfect complementarity, it is the capacity to tolerate differences with generosity that is the true marker of the “not overly wrong” person. Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition.

Alain de Botton, ‘Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person’ (via scientificphilosopher)

[noosphe-re]

… just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (via inthenoosphere)

[talesofpassingtime]

French prison authorities, convinced that “work is freedom,” give the inmates paper from which they are required to make bags. It was on this brown paper that Genet wrote, in pencil, Our Lady of the Flowers. One day, while the prisoners were marching in the yard, a turnkey entered the cell, noticed the manuscript, took it away, and burned it. Genet began again. Why? For whom? There was small chance of his keeping the work until his release, and even less of getting it printed. If, against all likelihood, he succeeded, the book was bound to be banned; it would be confiscated and scrapped. Yet he wrote on, he persisted in writing. Nothing in the world mattered to him except those sheets of brown paper which a match could reduce to ashes.

Jean Paul Sartre, Introduction to Jean Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers   

(via talesofpassingtime)

[all-about-sociology]

If you are currently in a relationship or perhaps even in a slump in the ‘love department’ i would highly recommend taking some time out of your day to watch this. 

[neonalchemy]

“Society is collapsing, and people are starting to recognize that the reason they feel like they’re mentally ill is that they’re living in a system that’s not designed to suit the human spirit.

Russell Brand (via neonalchemy)

[quotemadness]

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don’t care who’s listening.

Allen Ginsberg (via quotemadness)