Allzumenschliches

[bacchusishvara]

John Singer Sargent, Apollo and the Muses - Detail

[entjs-deactivated20210414]

Hungry, violent, lonely, godless: thus the lion-will wants itself. Free from the happiness of slaves, redeemed from gods and worship, fearless and fearful, great and lonely: thus is the will of the truthful.

Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via entjs)

[tomorrowandbeyond]

[arnold-bocklin]

Sanctuary of Hercules, 1880, Arnold Bocklin

[vesperttine]

[dame-de-pique]

Kyo Koike - Glacier Inferno, 1931

[sakrogoat]

Valère Bernard - Figures (Méduse)

[devayana]

All the great teachers in India have taken the battle in the Gita to be an internal one - between asuric [demonic] and daivic [divine] tendencies in the same person, between pravritti [outward, centrifugal] forces and nivritti [inward, centripetal] forces. The battle is for our entire psychosomatic complex, the whole miniaturised kingdom of Prakriti [nature, materiality] by either the daivic tendencies or the asuric ones.

Ravi Ravindra

[thoodleoo]

Not even the gods fight against necessity.

Simonides, Fr.37.1.27 (via thoodleoo)

[hadrian6]

Paradise Lost. 1910. Miklos Ligeti. Hungarian 1871-1944.  http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[gnossienne]

[devayana]

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[image: Ludovisi Gaul, detail. Marble, Roman copy after an Hellenistic original from a monument built by Attalus I of Pergamon after his victory over Gauls, ca. 220 BC.]

[detgamlenorge]

Bergen, Norway, 1968.

[sakrogoat]

Johann Heinrich Füssli - Satanic Call to the Beelzebub in Hell

[joeinct]

Medusa Arch, Photo by George Krause, 1963

[amoretsang-deactivated20240703]

Man must be a fallen god who feels an immense desire to return to the sky. Perhaps a poet’s nostalgia is nothing more than the yearning for a lost Paradise, where man is the image of divinity, not its caricature.

Otto Rahn in Crusade Against the Grail (via amoretsang)

[mostbeautifulgirlscaps]