only the strong go crazy

(formerly "drownings") hypersensitive in person & in-vitro, feeling at home in the whole world. russian novel personified. not a firm believer of social constructs like national borders. ♈︎. running after deep feels, enjoying melancholy. (in)sane and lingering. personal tumblr = chaos & mind. fanfic tumblr: inquisitor-of-hearts

[philosophybits]

“It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.”

— Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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[philosophybits]

“I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life

[philosophybits]

“To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no-one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy. The only relation of consciousness to happiness is gratitude: in which lies its incomparable dignity.”

— Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 72

[suffer-rosa]

[suffer-rosa]

[philosophybits]

“What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?”

— Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia

[scifiseries]

[philosophybits]

“Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.”

— William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

[thirdity]

“That, as of old, was the writer’s job, maybe his primary job. To show us the futures we didn’t want, and the futures we could have if we wanted.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

[philosophybits]

“Men are so simple, and so inclined to obey immediate needs, that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

[ysociety]

[573p5]

Tbilisi, Georgia - January 2023

[philosophybits]

“It is only up to a certain point that possessions make men more independent and free; one step further — and the possessions become master, the possessor becomes a slave: as which he must sacrifice to them his time and his thoughts and henceforth feel himself obligated to a society, nailed to a place and incorporated into a state none of which perhaps meets his inner and essential needs.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, 317

[mhanifest]

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[philosophybits]

“Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.”

— Pablo Picasso, Les lettres françaises (1943-03-24)

[philosophybits]

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1942