December 2010
61 posts
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the...”
– Franz Kafka
“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed...”
– T.S. Eliot
Suggestions for films that deal with... →
I’ve been receiving a lot of questions asking for more movie recommendations and several followers have send in their own suggestions as well so here is an updated list.
a lot of foreign language movies by Rohmer, Traffaut, Bergman, Fellini and Godard have an existential overtone but here are…
During the Russian revolution, the mathematical physicist Igor Tamm was seized by anti-communist vigilantes at a village near Odessa where he had gone to barter for food. They suspected he was an anti-Ukrainian communist agitator and dragged him off to their leader.
Asked what he did for a living, he said he was a mathematician. The sceptical gang leader began to finger the bullets and grenades...
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski
“As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger...”
– Charles Darwin
“You will know love when the mind is very still and free from its search for...”
– J. Krishnamurti
“It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“the difference between the human and chimpanzee mind is one round of cell...”
– Byron Adams, PhD
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists...”
– Albert Camus
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A letter from Lewis Carroll to 14-year-old Wilton...
Understanding you to be a distinguished algebraist (i.e. distinguished from other algebraists by different face, different height, etc.), I beg to submit to you a difficulty which distresses me much. If x and y are each equal to ’1,’ it is plain that 2 × (x2 – y2) = 0, and also that 5 × (x – y) = 0.
Hence 2 × (x2 – y2) = 5 × (x – y).
Now divide each side of this equation by (x – y).
Then 2 ×...
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“Everything in life has been figured out except how to live”
– jean-paul sartre
“There is no epic literature without a lyrical element. But that has completely...”
– Peter Handke
“The natural history of these islands is eminently curious, and well deserves...”
– Darwin, upon arriving at the Galapagos
“As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger...”
– Charles Darwin
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been...”
– Charles Darwin
“What I like doing best is Nothing.”
“How do you do Nothing,” asked Pooh after...”
– A.A. Milne
gaws asked: You're getting a follow 100% because of your question on fuckyeahexistentialism. That was lovely. Good for you. I couldn't agree with you more.
“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I...”
– Jack Kerouac
gaws asked: You're getting a follow 100% because of your question on fuckyeahexistentialism. That was lovely. Good for you. I couldn't agree with you more.
WatchBjork + Frou Frou
when your love is safe →
active child. when your love is safe. put it in your ears.
giving it all away.
“The world is comic to those who think and tragic to those who feel.”
– Horace Walpole, 1769
Apollo Throwdown - The Go! Team
Before the Law
Before the law sits a gatekeeper. To this gatekeeper comes a man from the country who asks to gain entry into the law. But the gatekeeper says that he cannot grant him entry at the moment. The man thinks about it and then asks if he will be allowed to come in sometime later on. “It is possible,” says the gatekeeper, “but not now.” The gate to the law stands open, as always, and the gatekeeper...
the great temple
A man made a long pilgrimage to a holy city. As he neared the city he saw, looming above the lower irregular shapes of other structures, the walls and roof of the great temple that was the object of his journey. Yet again and again, as he searched through dark narrow alleys and small marketplaces, he failed to find its entrance. As best he could, in a language not his own, he made inquiries of the...
“We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
abraham
It is related of a peasant who came to the Capital, and had made so much money that he could buy himself a pair of shoes and stockings and still had enough left over to get drunk on—it is related that as he was trying in his drunken state to find his way home he lay down in the middle of the highway and fell asleep. Then along came a wagon, and the driver shouted to him to move or he would run...
“Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is...”
– Synecdoche, New York
(written and directed by Charlie Kaufman)
I’m not scared to die - I’m a little bit scared of what comes after
“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.”
– Herzog, Saul Bellow
“I confess with all sincerity that the supposed rational proofs—the ontological,...”
– Miguel de Unamuno
“It’s an act of supreme mercy to wake up the one who is sleeping, or to move the...”
– Miguel de Unamuno
“I confess with all sincerity that the supposed rational proofs—the ontological,...”
– Miguel de Unamuno
“Considero cristiano a todo el que invoca con respeto y amor el nombre de Cristo,...”
– Miguel de Unamuno
“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller