He could not sell a single painting in his whole life… (Osho) | Part A’
The poets have defined art as for its own sake, there is nothing else beyond it: art for art's sake. Art for Art's sake...
23 February, 2018
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Sisyphus’ myth (Albert Camus) | Part B’
The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. This word is not too much. Again...
11 February, 2018
Sisyphus’ myth (Albert Camus) | Part A’
The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall...
10 February, 2018
Be Drunk
You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue,...
20 October, 2017
The Animal School (OSHO)
Intelligence is the inborn capacity to see, to perceive. Every child is born intelligent, then made stupid by the society. We educate him in stupidity. Sooner or later he graduates in stupidity. Have you ever come across a child who is stupid? It is impossible! But...
04 October, 2017
Living in the Antechamber of Hope | Part A’ (NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB)
Assume that your activities depend on a Black Swan surprise—i.e., you are a reverse turkey. Intellectual, scientific, and artistic activities belong to the province of Extremistan, where there is a severe concentration of success, with a very small number of winners claiming a large share...
01 October, 2017
Most men have no notion of an alliance resting upon any other basis (A.Schopenhauer)
When he is young, a man of noble character fancies that the relations prevailing amongst mankind, and the alliances to which these relations lead, are at bottom and essentially, ideal in their nature; that is to say, that they rest upon similarity of disposition or...
27 September, 2017
The cause of happiness which lies within us is greater than the cause that comes from things.
Compared with genuine personal advantages, such as a great mind or a great heart, all the privileges of rank, birth, even royal birth, wealth, and so on, are as kings on the stage to kings in real life. Metrodorus, the first disciple of Epicurus, gave...
23 August, 2017
As is well known, happy marriages are few. (SCHOPENHAUER)
The wretched condition of most persons physically, morally, and intellectually may be partly accounted for by the fact that marriages are not generally the result of pure choice and inclination, but of all kinds of external considerations and accidental circumstances. However, if inclination to a...
10 August, 2017
The sources of our greatest joys lying awkwardly close to those of our greatest pains. (De Botton)
Really, there is nobody living about whom I care much. The people I like have been dead for a long, long time – for example, the Abbé Galiani, or Henri Beyle, or Montaigne. He could have added another hero, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. These four men were perhaps...
09 August, 2017
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