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“Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.”
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classical man didn't know the clock, time is a product of civilization and technologized existence, he knew only nature and it was synonymous with time for him, Clock time is lifeless time, tempus mortuum, in which second follows second in monotonous repetition. Lifeless, clock-measured time flows along side by side with the life time of man, but aloof from it, utterly regardless of the high and the low tides of life where no two moments are alike.
To the reflective mind, the clock summons up the thought of death. The figure of the dying Charles V, pacing among the clocks in his collection and attempting to regulate their movements, emits the frost of death. He watches and he listens to the passing of time that inevitably leads to death.
In an era when the public clock, visible from far off, was still looked upon as a rare masterpiece, it proclaimed an unmistakable Memento mori.
— Freidrick Jünger, The Failure of Technology.
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“Homeric heroes lived and died; whereas the snobs of the West chitchat about pleasure and pain.”
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The seven headed beast is worshipped by men of all nations, as told in the book of revelations.
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Freedom is an ideal, but in the perspective indicated by this formula of Goethe: “Anything that liberates our spirit without raising us to a greater mastery of ourselves, corrupts us”.
— Julius Evola.
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The One remains, the many change and pass;
Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais.
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'Spinoza was willing to associate himself with the pantheistic traditions of the Kabbalah if the latter are cleansed of their monotheist gradations' — Y. Y. Melamed.
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In Plato’s Theages the following passage is read: “Every one of us would like if possible to be master of mankind; and if possible, a God.” This attitude of mind must be resurrected in our midst.
— F.N, The Will To Power, The Lords of The Earth, §958.
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From Darkness, the Light (symbol of Hebe and Zeus), 1831, oil on canvas by Johann Nepomuk Ender, 1793-1854.
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Élévation
Au-dessus des étangs, au-dessus des vallées,
Des montagnes, des bois, des nuages, des mers,
Par delà le soleil, par delà les éthers,
Par delà les confins des sphères étoilées,
Mon esprit, tu te meus avec agilité,
Et, comme un bon nageur qui se pâme dans l'onde,
Tu sillonnes gaiement l'immensité profonde
Avec une indicible et mâle volupté.
Envole-toi bien loin de ces miasmes morbides;
Va te purifier dans l'air supérieur,
Et bois, comme une pure et divine liqueur,
Le feu clair qui remplit les espaces limpides.
Derrière les ennuis et les vastes chagrins
Qui chargent de leur poids l'existence brumeuse,
Heureux celui qui peut d'une aile vigoureuse
S'élancer vers les champs lumineux et sereins;
Celui dont les pensers, comme des alouettes,
Vers les cieux le matin prennent un libre essor,
— Qui plane sur la vie, et comprend sans effort
Le langage des fleurs et des choses muettes!
— Charles Baudelaire, Fleurs du mal.
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In the centre of the van rides Julius Caesar, whom Shakespeare has pronounced “the foremost man of all this world.” On his right are the Egyptian called by the Greeks Sesostris, now known to be Rameses II, Attila, “the Scourge of God,” Hannibal the Carthaginian, and Tamerlane the Tartar. On his left march Napoleon, the last world-conqueror, Alexander of Macedon, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, that “head of gold” in the great image seen in his vision as interpreted by the prophet Daniel, and Charlemagne, who restored the fallen Roman Empire.
Les conquérants by Pierre Fritel.
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كان الحلّاج في مسجدٍ وحوله جماعةٌ، فقال: لو ألقي ممّا في قلبي ذرَّةٌ على جبالِ الأرضِ لذابت، وإنِّي لو كُنُتَ يوم القيامةِ في النارِ لأحرقت النار، ولو دخلت الجنة لأنهدم بُنْيانها، ثم أنشأ يقول:
عَجِبْتُ لِكُلِّي كَيْفَ يَحْمِلُهُ بَعْضِي
وَمِنْ ثِقلِ بَعْضٍ ليسَ تحمِلُني أرضِي
لَئِنْ كَانَ في بَسْطٍ مِنَ الأَرْضِ مَضْجَعٌ
فَقَلْبِي عَلَى بَسْطٍ من الخَلْقِ في قَبْضِ
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كان بورخيس يَرى في اَلْعَمى لونًا أصفرًا لأن ما عَلِقَ في ذاكرتِهِ نَمِرٌ ما أو قد يكون نَمِر ويليم بليك، ولكن أنا المُبصر أرى الظُلْمةَ دومًا، وفيلقًا من الأمواتِ يَركض داخلي، إنني مُتهم بقضيةِ: قتل الحياة وكل ما هو حيويٌّ ومُبهِجٌ. فهل رأيت نمرًا أم غراب إدغار آلان بو؟
