Kawaii Moon Kid

Creating my own experience

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[philosophybits]

“Fanaticism never sleeps: it is never glutted: it is never stopped by philanthropy; for it makes a merit of trampling on philanthropy: it is never stopped by conscience; for it has pressed conscience into its service. Avarice, lust, and vengeance, have piety, benevolence, honour; fanaticism has nothing to oppose it.”

— Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation

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“Here, as elsewhere, human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way.”

— Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

[jareckiworld]

Peter Milton — Sight Lines V: "Hide and Seek" (digital print, 2014)

[thirdity]

“When I recite Shakespeare, my father is living in me. The people who have heard me will live in my voice, which is a reflection of a voice that was, perhaps, a reflection of the voice of its elders. The same may be said of music and of language. Language is a creation, it becomes a kind of immortality. I am using the Castilian language. How many dead Castilians are living within me?”

— Jorge Luis Borges, “Immortality”

[suliqyre]

A successful artwork shows us something we haven't seen before. It does this by drawing our attention to an aspect of our experience through a representation of that experience in a particular medium. As such, all art attains its power through metaphor.

In seeing the connection between the artistic representation and our experience, we encounter the beauty and truth of the artwork, and it is this encounter that helps us become more aware of the world and ourselves. We often feel intensely the value of such an encounter, and we are moved to share it with others. Through the practice of criticism, we show others the parts of the work we've noticed, and in doing so, we offer our own perspective for consideration.

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[philosophybits]

“Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying

[philosophybits]

“Knowledge of the heart must come from the heart — from and in its pains and longings, its emotional responses.”

— Martha Nussbaum, Love’s Knowledge

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Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (1934-2016)—Excursion with my Laser [varnish and acrylic on canvas, 1978]

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Paweł Wróbel (1913-1984) — The Witch on Her Way to the Gallows [acrylic on canvas, 1971]

[philosophybits]

“One of art’s roles is to fix this passionate assertion of existence in a more durable way: the festival is at the origin of the theatre, music, the dance, and poetry. In telling a story, in depicting it, one makes it exist in its particularity with its beginning and its end, its glory or its shame; and this is the way it actually must be lived. In the festival, in art, men express their need to feel that they exist absolutely.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

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“A man of courage is also full of faith.”

— Cicero, Tusculan Disputations

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Nishiyama Hoen, Insect Procession,

detail, ink and color on silk, 1851

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[philosophybits]

“I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”

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“I know of no church, however tolerant; of no priesthood, however enlightened, which could be safely trusted with the tremendous power which universal conformity would confer. We should welcome all men of every shade of religious opinion, as among the best means of checking the arrogance and intolerance which are the almost inevitable concomitants of general conformity.”

— Frederick Douglass, “Our Composite Nationality (1869)”