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read in December 2019
progress:
(page 111 of 708)
"2nd reading, so far my notes taking has been quite different from the first reading, I am far too influenced by Fichte.
This will require another reading soon." — Oct 15, 2022 02:53PM
"2nd reading, so far my notes taking has been quite different from the first reading, I am far too influenced by Fichte.
This will require another reading soon." — Oct 15, 2022 02:53PM
progress:
(page 342 of 1312)
"Getting comfortable with reading in archaic Hindi. When formal words start appearing in your day to day conversations, you know you are killing it!" — Sep 27, 2019 02:48PM
"Getting comfortable with reading in archaic Hindi. When formal words start appearing in your day to day conversations, you know you are killing it!" — Sep 27, 2019 02:48PM
progress:
(page 1009 of 2502)
"In Sanskrit language we find words, forms, declensions, conjugations, etc., that are very similar or exactly the same as corresponding Latin words... Great number of these nouns and verb are of primary necessity (to be, man, father, mother, etc.) or represent very primitive ideas in the languages. And many of those Sanskrit words also correspond to analogous Greek words, but in effect less than to Latin.
-Z2352" — Dec 29, 2020 10:26PM
"In Sanskrit language we find words, forms, declensions, conjugations, etc., that are very similar or exactly the same as corresponding Latin words... Great number of these nouns and verb are of primary necessity (to be, man, father, mother, etc.) or represent very primitive ideas in the languages. And many of those Sanskrit words also correspond to analogous Greek words, but in effect less than to Latin.
-Z2352" — Dec 29, 2020 10:26PM


“But anyone who only expects thinking to give assurances, and awaits the day when we can go beyond it as unnecessary, is demanding that thought annihilate itself.”
― Early Greek Thinking: The Dawn of Western Philosophy
― Early Greek Thinking: The Dawn of Western Philosophy

“You see, that will start, for instance, with the recognition that what you call good is very bad for other people, or what they call good is very bad for you. So you come to the conclusion that they are human beings too and they must have their point of view as you have yours. And then you are already out of it, already static, already au dessus de la mêlée. Of course you can take such a standpoint illegitimately before you have gone through the turmoil, just in order to avoid the conflict; people sometimes like to play that stunt, but that has no merit and they are tempted all the time to climb down into the turmoil. But if you have gone through the turmoil, if you cannot stand you any more, if the unconscious itself spits you out, then life itself spits you out as old Jonah was spit out by the whale; and then it islegitimate that you contentedly sit on the top of life, having a look at it. Then you can congeal the pairs of opposites in a beautiful static structure.
Jung, C. G.. Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939. Two Volumes: 1-2, unabridged (Jung Seminars) (p. 1110-1111). Princeton University Press.”
― Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939 C.G. Jung
Jung, C. G.. Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939. Two Volumes: 1-2, unabridged (Jung Seminars) (p. 1110-1111). Princeton University Press.”
― Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939 C.G. Jung

“People have nothing to do and therefore they interfere with the life of others. I dont want to interfere with the life of others.”
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“So that poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general, as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions, than the other art. And I think there are reasons in nature, why the obscure idea, when properly conveyed, should be more affecting than the clear. It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration, and chiefly excites our passions. Knowledge and acquaintance make the most striking causes affect but little. It is thus with the vulgar; and all men are as the vulgar in what they do not understand.”
― A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
― A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“A verbal trap; after the end there is nothing, since if there were something, the end would not be the end. Nonetheless, we are always setting forth to meet…, even though we know that there is nothing, or no one, awaiting us. We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act. Without this end that constantly eludes us we would not journey forth, nor would there be any paths. But the end is the refutation and the condemnation of the path: at the end the path dissolves, the meeting fades away to nothingness. And the end—it too fades away to nothingness.”
― The Monkey Grammarian
― The Monkey Grammarian

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