The Aleph

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

[philosophybits]

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Albert Einstein, attr. in Einstein, Profile of the Man, by Peter Michelmore (via philosophybits)

[bellecs]

[biokam]

Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)

[musicktoplayinthedark]

Steve Reich

[philosophybits]

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle, Politics (via philosophybits)

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[philosophybits]

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Albert Camus, The Plague (via philosophybits)

[theredsapphire]

We need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that sometimes big changes follow from small events, and that sometimes these changes can happen very quickly.” Excerpt From: Gladwell, Malcolm. “The tipping point: how little things can make a big difference.

(via theredsapphire)

[philosophybits]

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley, “Technical Education”, Collected Essays (via philosophybits)

[franzkavkas]

15 August. Agonies in bed towards morning. Saw only solution in jumping out the window.

Franz Kafka, 1913 diary entry (via franzkavka)

[1000rh]

Psychiatric definitions of hikikomori culture seem to me to be quite elusive, since they do not address the crucial problem that is implied in the behaviour of so many Japanese kids. Such behaviour should not be seen simply as the symptom of pathology, but should be understood as a form of adjustment to the anthropological and social mutation that is underway, as an answer to the unbearable stress of competition, mental exploitation, and precarity. […] Considering the stress of competition provoked by the Japanese economic context, one may argue that hikikomori behaviour is a healthy reaction to the frantic, precarious life created by late capitalism: a fully understandable withdrawal from hell.

Franco Bifo Berardi, And: Phenomenology of the End, 104-5 (via alterology)

[fyp-philosophy]

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

Thomas Hobbes (via fyp-philosophy)

[litsnaps]

[fuck-yeah-existentialism]

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

Eckhart Tolle (via fuck-yeah-existentialism)

[nevver]

Now I am become Death, Greenpoint

[silicongarden-deactivated202004]

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (via syntheticphilosophy)

[fyp-philosophy]

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses (via fyp-philosophy)

[heteroglossia]

To read is to find meanings, and to find meanings is to name them; but these named meanings are swept toward other names, names call to each other, reassemble, and their grouping calls for further naming: I name, I unname, I rename, so the text passes.

Roland Barthes, S/Z

The reader is light, divided, dispersed, never still, and so is her reading.

(via heteroglossia)