January 2011
11 posts
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and...
– Albert Camus (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
-betwixt:
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow— You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if Hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains...
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have...
– Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan (via a-space-odyssey)
What the storyteller narrates must necessarily be hidden from the actor himself,...
– Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, p. 192 (via fuckyeahexistentialism)