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“The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. ”
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“When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.”
― Brecht on Theatre
― Brecht on Theatre
“It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.”
― Speak
― Speak
“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 most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.”
― On the Arts: Selections from G.W.F. Hegel's Aesthetics or the Philosophy of Fine Art
― On the Arts: Selections from G.W.F. Hegel's Aesthetics or the Philosophy of Fine Art
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
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