William Bailey, Great Ship of Knowledge: Learning Earth’s Deathly History
Together, “Light and Knowledge” are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable....
Tag: philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein, کتاب آبی
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us....
Bob Black, The Abolition of Work & Other Essays
The real enemy” is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class society, or statism, or the society of the spectacle expropriates everyday life, the time of our lives. The real enemy is not an object apart...
Anne Carson, Decreation
THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM[all snap flags]Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem....
Vladimir Nabokov
Light in comparison with darkness is a void....
Anirban Bose, Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls
The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and kismat to deal with the irrationality of its sequence...
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, On the Arts: Selections from G.W.F. Hegel’s Aesthetics or the Philosophy of Fine Art
If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the...
Ron Rash, Serena
It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)...
Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
…as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy....
Raymond Chandler
Television’s perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval...
