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Slavoj Žižek Discusses Philosophy, Topless in Bed (And So On and So On)
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Jacques Derrida in Conversation with Raymond Williams (1986 Documentary)
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“Genius and Virtue”— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Genius and Virtue” by Arthur Schopenhauer When I think, it is the spirit of the world which is striving to express its thought; it is nature which is trying to know and fathom itself. It is not the...
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“Best films (not in order)”— Susan Sontag
Best films (not in order) Bresson, Pickpocket Kubrick, 2001 Vidor, The Big Parade Visconti, Ossessione Kurosawa, High and Low Syberberg, Hitler Godard, 2 ou 3 Choses . . . Rossellini, Louis XIV Renoir,...
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It’s very confusing (Calvin & Hobbes)
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Pain and boredom (Schopenhauer)
The most general survey shows us that the two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. We may go further, and say that in the degree in which we are fortunate enough to get away from the one, we...
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“Authors”— Voltaire
“Authors” — Voltaire (From Philosophical Dictionary) Author is a generic name which can, like the name of all other professions, signify good or bad, worthy of respect or ridicule, useful and...
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Mountain fable (Voltaire)
It is a very old, very universal fable that tells of the mountain which, having frightened all the countryside by its outcry that it was in labor, was hissed by all present when it brought into the...
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Equivocal, tortured, fleeting, dream-like existence (Schopenhauer)
When one considers how vast and how close to us is the problem of existence—this equivocal, tortured, fleeting, dream-like existence of ours—so vast and so close that a man no sooner discovers it than...
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Knowledge is eternally incommunicable (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can...
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Writers may be classified as meteors, planets and fixed stars (Schopenhauer)
Writers may be classified as meteors, planets and fixed stars. A meteor makes a striking effect for a moment. You look up and cry There! and it is gone for ever. Planets and wandering stars last a much...
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“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory” (Pascal)
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. We love to see animals fighting, not the victor infuriated over the vanquished. We would only see the victorious end; and, as soon as it comes, we are...
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“Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul” (Pascal)
Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul, as well as work does; but we do not draw therefrom the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is against his will. And although we...
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Karlheinz Stockausen on Human Evolution
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“The feeling of the sublime is a mixed feeling” (Schiller)
The feeling of the sublime is a mixed feeling. It is at once a painful state, which in its paroxysm is manifested by a kind of shudder, and a joyous state, that may rise to rapture, and which, without...
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Theory (Pessoa)
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Diogenes — Jules Bastien-Lepage
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Bad books are intellectual poison (Schopenhauer)
It is in literature as in life: wherever you turn, you stumble at once upon the incorrigible mob of humanity, swarming in all directions, crowding and soiling everything, like flies in summer. Hence...
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