May 2012
April 2012
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
—Oscar Wilde (via somesensualbelief)
“To love one girl is too little; to love all is superficiality; to know oneself and to love as many as possible, to let one’s soul conceal all the power of love inside itself so that each receives its specific nourishment while the consciousness nevertheless embraces the whole- -that is enjoyment, that is living.”
—Soren Kierkegaard gives an insight to the aesthetic sphere through the pseudonym A in The Seducer’s Diary.
“It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via punkdad)
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“The more devotedness one can bring to erotic love, the more interesting. This momentary enjoyment is a rape, even if not outwardly but nevertheless mentally, and in a rape there is only imagined enjoyment; it is like a stolen kiss, something nondescript. No, if one can bring it to a point where a girl has but one task for her freedom, to give herself, so that she feels her whole happiness in this, so that she practically begs for this devotedness and yet is free—only then is there enjoyment, but this always takes a discerning touch.”
—scumbag Kierkegaard (Either/Or)
“To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.”
—Rudolf Steiner (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”
—The Picture of Dorian Gray (via -intothinair)
“For all those occasions on which the Christian expects the direct intervention of God, but does so in vain because there is no God, his religion is sufficiently inventive in reasons and excuses to pacify him.”
—Human, All Too Human, “Assorted Opinions and Maxims,” §225 (edited excerpt).
“Wine no longer cheers my heart; a little of it makes me sad—much depressed. My soul is dull and slack; in vain do I jab the spur of desire into its side, it is exhausted, it can no longer raise itself up in its royal jump. I have lost all my illusions.”
—Either/Or
“My soul has lost possibility. If I were to wish for something, I should wish not for wealth or power but for the passion of possibility, for the eye, eternally young, eternally ardent, that sees possibility everywhere. Pleasure disappoints; possibility does not.”
—Either/Or
“The truth is not my specialty. Confusion makes most sense to me.”
—Elliott Smith (via waitinforthebus)
