• Anyone who listens to a child's crying and understands what he hears will know that it harbours dormant psychic forces, terrible forces different from anything commonly assumed. Profound rage, pain, and lust for destruction. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
The human gaze has a power of conferring value on things; but it makes them cost more too. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
If anyone should think he has solved the problem of life and feel like telling himself that everything is quite easy now, he can see that he is wrong just by recalling that there was a time when this 'solution' had not been discovered; but it must have been possible to live then too and the solution which has not been discovered seems fortuitious in relation to how things were then.
[Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Man has to awaken to wonder-and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
I realize then that the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value, but simply of certain means of expressing this value, yet the fact remains that I have no sympathy for the current of European civilization and do not understand its goals, if it has any.
[Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
each of the sentences I write is trying to say the whole thing, i.e. the same thing over and over again; it is as though they were all simply views of one object seen from different angles. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Within Christianity it's as though God says to men: Don't act a tragedy, that's to say, don't enact heaven and hell on earth. Heaven and hell are my affair. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
People say again and again that philosophy doesn't really progress, that we are still occupied with the same philosophical problems as were the Greeks. But the people who say this don't understand why it has to be so. It is because our language has remained the same and keeps seducing us into asking the same questions. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Kleist wrote somewhere that what the poet would most of all like to be able to do would be to convey thoughts by themselves without words. (What a strange admission.) [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Nothing we do can be defended absolutely and finally. But only by reference to something else that is not questioned. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Perhaps the inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Working in philosophy-like work in architecture in many respects-is really more a working on oneself. ON one's own interpretation. On one's way of seeing things. (And what one expects of them.) [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Ramsey was a borgeois thinker. I.e. he thought with the aim of clearing up the affairs of some particular community. He did not reflect on the essence of the state-or at least he did not like doing so-but on how this state might be reasonably organized. The idea that this state might not be the only possible one in part disquieted him and in part bored him.
[Substitute Rawlsians for Ramsey] [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Language sets everyone the same traps; it is an immense network of easily accessible wrong turnings. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
What I do think essential is carrying out the work of clarification with COURAGE; otherwise it becomes just a clever game. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
The delight I take in my thoughts is delight in my own strange life. Is this joy of living? [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Don't play with what lies deep in another person! [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
I think I summed up my attitude towards philosophy when I said philosophy ought really to be written only as poetic composition. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
the edifice of your pride has to be dismantled. And that is terribly hard work. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
The way to solve the problem you see in life is to live in a way that will make what is problematic disappear. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
language-I want to say-is a refinement, 'in the beginning was the deed'. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
nobody can truthfully say of himself that he is filth. because if I do say it, though it can be true in a sense, this is not a truth by which I myself can be penetrated: otherwise I could either have to go mad or change myself. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
And it could say something to me only if I lived completely differently. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
a philosopher is a man who has to cure many intellectual diseases in himself before he can arrive at the notions of common sense. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
people are religious to the extent that they believe themselves to be not so much imperfect as ill. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Christianity is not based on historical truth; rather, it offers us a (historical) narrative and says: now believe! But not, believe this narrative with the belief appropriate to a historical narrative, rather: believe, through thick and thin, which you can do only as the result of a life...there is nothing paradoxical about that! [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
This message (the Gosepls) is seized on by men believingly (i.e. lovingly).
And it could say something to me, only if I lived completely differently. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
You must say something new and yet it must all be old. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
'thoughts that are at peace. That's what someone who philosophizes yearns for." [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
In a scientific perspective a new use is justified by a theory. And if this theory is false, the new extended use has to be given up. But in philosophy the extended use does not rest on true or false beliefs about natural processes. No fact justifies it. None can give it any support. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
wanting to think is one thing; having a talent for thinking another. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
that man will be revolutionary who can revolutionize himself. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Hate between men comes from our cutting ourselves off from each other. Because we don't want anyone else to look inside us, since it's not a pretty sight in there.
Of course you must continue to feel ashamed of what's inside you, but not ashamed of yourself before your fellow-men. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
For if a man feels lost, that is the ultimate torment. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
For him there was no reconciliation; his life is naked and wretched. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
The human being is the best picture of the human soul. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
A hero looks death in the face, real death, no just the image of death. Behaving honourably...means rather being able to look death itself in the eye. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
One of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life. (or the direction of your life.)
Once you have been turned round, you must stay turned round. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
The truly apocalypitc view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absured, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is a delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Wisdom is cold and to that extent stupid. (Faith on the other hand is a passion.) It might also be said: Wisdom merely conceals life from you. (Wisdom is like cold grey ash, covering up the glowing embers.) [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Wisdom is grey. Life on the other hand and religion are full of colour. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
I am by no means sure that I should prefer a continuation of my work by others to a change in the way people live which would make all these questions superflous. (for this reason I could never found a school.) [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
It strikes me that religious belief could only be something like a passionate commitment to a system of reference. Hence although its belief, it's really a way of living, or a way of assessing life. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
It would be as though someone were first to let me see the hopelessness of my situation and then show me the means of rescue until, of my own accord, or not at any rate led to it by my instructor, I ran to it and grasped it. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Bach said that all his achievement were simply the fruit of industry. But industry like that requires humility and an enormous capacity for suffering, hence strength.
Endurance of suffering isn't rated highly because there is supposed not to be any suffering-really it's out of date. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
The 'cussedness' of things is a stupid anthropomorphism. Because the truth is much graver than this fiction. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
I am too soft, too weak, and so too lazy to achieve anything significant. The industry of great men is, amongst other things, a sign of their strength... [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
The problems of life are insoluble on the surface and can only be solved in depth. They are insoluble in surface dimensions. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Even to have expressed a false thought boldly and clearly is already to have gained a great deal.
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Nearly all my writings are private conversations with myself. Things that I say to myself tete a tete. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
It is difficult to know something and to act as if you did not know it. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
At bottom I am indifferent to the solution of scientific problems....
[Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
I should like to say that in this case too the words you utter or what you think as you utter them are not what matters, so much as the difference they make at various points in your life.
Practice gives the words their sense. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Perhaps one could 'convince someone that God exists' by means of a certain kind of upbringing, by shaping his life in such a way. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Life can educate one to a belief in God. And experiences too are what bring this about; but I don't mean visions and other forms of sense experience which show us the 'existence of this being', but, e.g., sufferings of various sorts....Experiences, thoughts, -life can force this concept on us. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
So if you want to stay within the religious sphere you must struggle. [Wiitgenstein, Culture and Value]
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Eliot
• Because I know that time is always time
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is actual only for one time
And only for one place
I rejoice that things are as they are and
I renounce the blessèd face
And renounce the voice
Because I cannot hope to turn again
Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something
Upon which to rejoice.
[T.S. Eliot]
• This is the time of tension between dying and birth
The place of solitude where three dreams cross
Between blue rocks
But when the voices shaken from the yew-tree drift away
Let the other yew be shaken and reply.
Blessèd sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden,
Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still
Even among these rocks,
Our peace in His will
And even among these rocks
Sister, mother
And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea,
Suffer me not to be separated
And let my cry come unto Thee.
[Eliot]
• There are two ways to victory, to strive bravely or to yield. How much pain the last will save us we have not yet learned. [-Thoreau]
• "It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying." [-Proust]
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is actual only for one time
And only for one place
I rejoice that things are as they are and
I renounce the blessèd face
And renounce the voice
Because I cannot hope to turn again
Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something
Upon which to rejoice.
[T.S. Eliot]
• This is the time of tension between dying and birth
The place of solitude where three dreams cross
Between blue rocks
But when the voices shaken from the yew-tree drift away
Let the other yew be shaken and reply.
Blessèd sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden,
Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still
Even among these rocks,
Our peace in His will
And even among these rocks
Sister, mother
And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea,
Suffer me not to be separated
And let my cry come unto Thee.
[Eliot]
• There are two ways to victory, to strive bravely or to yield. How much pain the last will save us we have not yet learned. [-Thoreau]
• "It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying." [-Proust]
castoriadis
• "The psyche is not a well-oiled, rational mechanism. The psyche is essentially radical imagination, a perpetually surging flux of representations, desires, and affects. " [Castoriadis]
• "This creativity of the human imagination is at the root of the most severe psychical and political problems...the human psyche is amoral, but also asocial and acosmic. This also means that as such, left to itself, it is radically unfit for life..." [Castoriadis]
• "...the radical imagination is what distinguishes human psyche from animal psyche. The radical imagination makes the psyche capable of producing those representations, those phantasms, which are not the outcome of perceptions...."[Castoriadis]
• "This creativity of the human imagination is at the root of the most severe psychical and political problems...the human psyche is amoral, but also asocial and acosmic. This also means that as such, left to itself, it is radically unfit for life..." [Castoriadis]
• "...the radical imagination is what distinguishes human psyche from animal psyche. The radical imagination makes the psyche capable of producing those representations, those phantasms, which are not the outcome of perceptions...."[Castoriadis]
rilke
• "Who, if I screamed out, would hear among the hierarchies of angels? [1st Elegy]
"But this, though: death, all of death, even before life has begun, to hold it all so gently and without rancor, this is beyond description." [4th Elegy]
"But death we alone can see; the free animal always has its demise behind it and God before, and when it walks it walks into eternity, like the flowing of a spring" [8th Elegy]
"for close to death, we stop seeing death, and stare beyond, perhaps with the vast gaze of animals. Lovers, if the other were not there, obstructing the view, come near to it and marvel..." [8th Elegy]
"But for the animal, its being is infinite, unfettered, unconcerned with its own condition, pure as its outward gaze. And where we see future, it sees everything, and itself is everything, foerver healed." [8th Elegy]
"Here all is seperation, there it was breath. After the first home, the second seems a hybrid place, wind-blown"
"O Bliss of the tiny creature who remains forever in the womb that bore it....for womb is all." [8th Elegy]
"Who has turned us around like this, so that whatever we do, we find ourselves in the attitude of someone going away? Just as that person on the last hill, which shows him his whole valley one last time, turns, stops, linger-, so we live, forever taking our leave." [8th Elegy]
"...then why do we have to be human-and avoiding destiny, long for destiny?...oh not because there is happiness, that rash profit taken just prior to the impending loss..." [9th elegy]
"...us, the most fleeting. Once for everything, only once. Once and no more. And we, too, only once. Never again. But to have been, this once, if only this once: to have been of the earth can never be taken back" [9th Elegy]
"...best of all, hold on to all of it forever...Ah, but into that other relation, what can we carry over? Not the power to see, learned here so slowly and none of the things that happened here. Not one. The pain, then. Above all the sadness, and the long experience of love-only what is unsayable." [9th Elegy]
"let me, one day, emerging from this grim vision, sing jubilation and praise to assenting angels." [10th Elegy]
"Let my streaming face make me more shining; let my simple tears flower. How dear will you be to me then, you nights of affliction." [10th Elegy]
"Children play, and couples hold each other, -off to the side, it gets more serious, on the patchy grass, and dogs do what is natural." [10th Elegy]
"But this, though: death, all of death, even before life has begun, to hold it all so gently and without rancor, this is beyond description." [4th Elegy]
"But death we alone can see; the free animal always has its demise behind it and God before, and when it walks it walks into eternity, like the flowing of a spring" [8th Elegy]
"for close to death, we stop seeing death, and stare beyond, perhaps with the vast gaze of animals. Lovers, if the other were not there, obstructing the view, come near to it and marvel..." [8th Elegy]
"But for the animal, its being is infinite, unfettered, unconcerned with its own condition, pure as its outward gaze. And where we see future, it sees everything, and itself is everything, foerver healed." [8th Elegy]
"Here all is seperation, there it was breath. After the first home, the second seems a hybrid place, wind-blown"
"O Bliss of the tiny creature who remains forever in the womb that bore it....for womb is all." [8th Elegy]
"Who has turned us around like this, so that whatever we do, we find ourselves in the attitude of someone going away? Just as that person on the last hill, which shows him his whole valley one last time, turns, stops, linger-, so we live, forever taking our leave." [8th Elegy]
"...then why do we have to be human-and avoiding destiny, long for destiny?...oh not because there is happiness, that rash profit taken just prior to the impending loss..." [9th elegy]
"...us, the most fleeting. Once for everything, only once. Once and no more. And we, too, only once. Never again. But to have been, this once, if only this once: to have been of the earth can never be taken back" [9th Elegy]
"...best of all, hold on to all of it forever...Ah, but into that other relation, what can we carry over? Not the power to see, learned here so slowly and none of the things that happened here. Not one. The pain, then. Above all the sadness, and the long experience of love-only what is unsayable." [9th Elegy]
"let me, one day, emerging from this grim vision, sing jubilation and praise to assenting angels." [10th Elegy]
"Let my streaming face make me more shining; let my simple tears flower. How dear will you be to me then, you nights of affliction." [10th Elegy]
"Children play, and couples hold each other, -off to the side, it gets more serious, on the patchy grass, and dogs do what is natural." [10th Elegy]
misc
• Any kind of polemics fail from the outset to assume the attitude of thinking…thinking is thinking only when it pursues whatever speaks for a subject. [Heidegger]
• Michel Foucault: I like discussions, and when I am asked questions, I try to answer them. It’s true that I don’t like to get involved in polemics. If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of “infantile leftism” I shut it again right away. That’s not my way of doing things; I don’t belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake, the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other.
• "Before words, before expressions, always the phenomena first, and then the concepts!" [-Heidegger ,History Concept of Time]
• 'words were originally magic and to this day words have retained much of their ancient magical power...words provoke affects and are in general the means of mutual influence among men...Thus we shall not deprecate the use of words among men." [Freud]
• '...we assume it is in their power not to be ignorant, since they have the power of taking care.' [Aristotle, NE, BKIII, Ch. 5]
• '...the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.' [Kierkegaard]
• 'I can think the possibility of the unthinkable by dint of the unreason of the real' [Meillassoux]
• El hombre, dicen, es un animal racional. No sé por qué no se haya dicho que es un animal afectivo o sentimental. Y acaso lo que de los demás animales le diferencia sea más el sentimiento que no la razón. Más veces he visto razonar a un gato que no reír o llorar. [-Unamuno]
• Y toda esa trágica batalla del hombre por salvarse, ese inmortal anhelo de inmortalidad que le hizo al hombre Kant dar aquel salto inmortal de que os decía, todo eso no es más que una batalla por la conciencia. [-Unamuno]
• "Deep down I have probably never drawn great enjoyment from fiction, from reading novels, for example, beyond the pleasure takin in analyzing the play of writing, or else certain naive moments of identification."..."telling or inventing stories is something that deep down does not interest me particularly." [Derrida, This Strange Institution Called Literature]
• 'There are validity claims and they should be taken seriously. But...the difficulty is precisely that before we can debate these claims, we must be able to hear them and that before these claims can claim anything, they need quite literally to be understood...Validity does not come apart from meaning.' [Viskar]
• 'good entertaining ends without detaining' [Odysseus]
• 'Men's lives are short. The hard man and his cruelties will be cursed behind his back, and mocked in death. But one whose heart and ways are kind-of him strangers will bear report to the wide world' [Odysseus]
• "and death is less bitter than to live on and never have the beauty that we came here laying siege to so many days' {suitors, Odyssey, Bk XXI]
• Rage-Goddess, sing the rage...
• "for this alone is lacking even to God, to make undone things that have been done" [Aristotle, NE, BkVI]
• Michel Foucault: I like discussions, and when I am asked questions, I try to answer them. It’s true that I don’t like to get involved in polemics. If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of “infantile leftism” I shut it again right away. That’s not my way of doing things; I don’t belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake, the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other.
• "Before words, before expressions, always the phenomena first, and then the concepts!" [-Heidegger ,History Concept of Time]
• 'words were originally magic and to this day words have retained much of their ancient magical power...words provoke affects and are in general the means of mutual influence among men...Thus we shall not deprecate the use of words among men." [Freud]
• '...we assume it is in their power not to be ignorant, since they have the power of taking care.' [Aristotle, NE, BKIII, Ch. 5]
• '...the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.' [Kierkegaard]
• 'I can think the possibility of the unthinkable by dint of the unreason of the real' [Meillassoux]
• El hombre, dicen, es un animal racional. No sé por qué no se haya dicho que es un animal afectivo o sentimental. Y acaso lo que de los demás animales le diferencia sea más el sentimiento que no la razón. Más veces he visto razonar a un gato que no reír o llorar. [-Unamuno]
• Y toda esa trágica batalla del hombre por salvarse, ese inmortal anhelo de inmortalidad que le hizo al hombre Kant dar aquel salto inmortal de que os decía, todo eso no es más que una batalla por la conciencia. [-Unamuno]
• "Deep down I have probably never drawn great enjoyment from fiction, from reading novels, for example, beyond the pleasure takin in analyzing the play of writing, or else certain naive moments of identification."..."telling or inventing stories is something that deep down does not interest me particularly." [Derrida, This Strange Institution Called Literature]
• 'There are validity claims and they should be taken seriously. But...the difficulty is precisely that before we can debate these claims, we must be able to hear them and that before these claims can claim anything, they need quite literally to be understood...Validity does not come apart from meaning.' [Viskar]
• 'good entertaining ends without detaining' [Odysseus]
• 'Men's lives are short. The hard man and his cruelties will be cursed behind his back, and mocked in death. But one whose heart and ways are kind-of him strangers will bear report to the wide world' [Odysseus]
• "and death is less bitter than to live on and never have the beauty that we came here laying siege to so many days' {suitors, Odyssey, Bk XXI]
• Rage-Goddess, sing the rage...
• "for this alone is lacking even to God, to make undone things that have been done" [Aristotle, NE, BkVI]
misc.
• In das, was Denken heißt, gelangen wir, wenn wir selber denken.Damit ein solcher Versuch glückt, müssen wir bereit sein, das Denken zu lernen. [Heidegger]
• "...Wissen Sie, wesentlich ist für mich: Ich muß verstehen. Zu diesem Verstehen gehört bei mir auch das Schreiben. Das Schreiben ist Teil in dem Verstehensprozeß." -Arendt
• Denn wir vermögen nur das, was wir mögen. Aber wir mögen wiederum wahrhaft nur Jenes, was seinerseits uns selber und zwar uns in unserem Wesen mag, indem es sich unserem Wesen als das zuspricht, was uns im Wesen halt. [Heidegger]
• Das Bedenklichste ist, daß wir noch nicht denken; immer noch nicht, obgleich der Weltzustand fortgesetzt bedenklicher wird. [Heidegger]
• Gleichwohl vermag der Mensch nicht eigentlich
zu denken, solange sich das zu-Denkende entzieht. [Heidegger]
• Es wird gut sein, wenn wir möglichst lange in solcher Abwehrhaltung zu dem Gesagten ausharren; denn so allein halten wir uns in dem nötigen Abstand fur einen Anlauf, aus dem her vielleicht dem einen oder anderen der Sprung in das Denken gelingt.[Heidegger]
• Lernen heißt: unser Tun und Lassen zu dem in die Entsprechung bringen, was sich jeweils an Wesenhaftem uns zuspricht. Damit wir solches Bringen vermögen, müssen wir uns auf den Weg machen. [Heidegger]
• “to learn means to make everything we do answer to whatever essentials address themselves to us at a given time.” [Heidegger]
• “True. Teaching is even more difficult than learning. We know that; but we rarely think about it. And why is teaching more difficult than learning? Not because the teacher must have a larger store of information, and have it always ready. Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than-learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by ‘learning’ we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information. The teacher is ahead of his apprentice in this alone, that he has still far more to learn than they-he has to learn to let them learn. The teacher must be capable of being more teachable than the apprentices. The teacher is far less assured of his ground than those who learn are of theirs…there is never a place in it for the authority of the know-it-all or the authoritative sway of the official.” [Heidegger]
• Was sich entzieht, versagt die Ankunft. Allein - das Sichentziehen ist nicht nichts. Entzug ist Ereignis. Was sich entzieht, kann sogar den Menschen wesentlicher angehen und in den Anspruch nehmen als alles Anwesende, das ihn trifft und betrifft. [Heidegger]
• Das Ereignis des Entzugs könnte das Gegenwärtigste in allem
jetzt Gegenwärtigen sein und so die Aktualität alles Aktuellen unendlich übertreffen. [Heidegger]
• …:gezogen in das Sichentziehende, auf dem Zug in dieses und somit zeigend in den Entzug, ist der Mensch allererst Mensch. Sein Wesen beruht darin, ein solcher Zeigender zu sein…Auf dem Zug in das Sichentziehende ist der Mensch ein Zeichen. [Heidegger]
• Das Religiöse wird niemals durch die Logik zerstört, sondern immer nur dadurch, daß der Gott sich entzieht. [Heidegger]
• Solange wir freilich meinen, darüber, was Denken sei, gäbe uns die Logik einen Aufschluß, solange werden wir nicht bedenken können, inwiefern alles Dichten im Andenken beruht. [Heidegger]
• "...Wissen Sie, wesentlich ist für mich: Ich muß verstehen. Zu diesem Verstehen gehört bei mir auch das Schreiben. Das Schreiben ist Teil in dem Verstehensprozeß." -Arendt
• Denn wir vermögen nur das, was wir mögen. Aber wir mögen wiederum wahrhaft nur Jenes, was seinerseits uns selber und zwar uns in unserem Wesen mag, indem es sich unserem Wesen als das zuspricht, was uns im Wesen halt. [Heidegger]
• Das Bedenklichste ist, daß wir noch nicht denken; immer noch nicht, obgleich der Weltzustand fortgesetzt bedenklicher wird. [Heidegger]
• Gleichwohl vermag der Mensch nicht eigentlich
zu denken, solange sich das zu-Denkende entzieht. [Heidegger]
• Es wird gut sein, wenn wir möglichst lange in solcher Abwehrhaltung zu dem Gesagten ausharren; denn so allein halten wir uns in dem nötigen Abstand fur einen Anlauf, aus dem her vielleicht dem einen oder anderen der Sprung in das Denken gelingt.[Heidegger]
• Lernen heißt: unser Tun und Lassen zu dem in die Entsprechung bringen, was sich jeweils an Wesenhaftem uns zuspricht. Damit wir solches Bringen vermögen, müssen wir uns auf den Weg machen. [Heidegger]
• “to learn means to make everything we do answer to whatever essentials address themselves to us at a given time.” [Heidegger]
• “True. Teaching is even more difficult than learning. We know that; but we rarely think about it. And why is teaching more difficult than learning? Not because the teacher must have a larger store of information, and have it always ready. Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than-learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by ‘learning’ we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information. The teacher is ahead of his apprentice in this alone, that he has still far more to learn than they-he has to learn to let them learn. The teacher must be capable of being more teachable than the apprentices. The teacher is far less assured of his ground than those who learn are of theirs…there is never a place in it for the authority of the know-it-all or the authoritative sway of the official.” [Heidegger]
• Was sich entzieht, versagt die Ankunft. Allein - das Sichentziehen ist nicht nichts. Entzug ist Ereignis. Was sich entzieht, kann sogar den Menschen wesentlicher angehen und in den Anspruch nehmen als alles Anwesende, das ihn trifft und betrifft. [Heidegger]
• Das Ereignis des Entzugs könnte das Gegenwärtigste in allem
jetzt Gegenwärtigen sein und so die Aktualität alles Aktuellen unendlich übertreffen. [Heidegger]
• …:gezogen in das Sichentziehende, auf dem Zug in dieses und somit zeigend in den Entzug, ist der Mensch allererst Mensch. Sein Wesen beruht darin, ein solcher Zeigender zu sein…Auf dem Zug in das Sichentziehende ist der Mensch ein Zeichen. [Heidegger]
• Das Religiöse wird niemals durch die Logik zerstört, sondern immer nur dadurch, daß der Gott sich entzieht. [Heidegger]
• Solange wir freilich meinen, darüber, was Denken sei, gäbe uns die Logik einen Aufschluß, solange werden wir nicht bedenken können, inwiefern alles Dichten im Andenken beruht. [Heidegger]
misc
• ‘Philosophical research remains atheism, which is why philosophy can allow itself “the arrogance of thinking”’. [Heidegger]
• A man asked Mr. K. whether there is a God. Mr. K. said: “I advise you to consider whether, depending on the answer, your behavior would change. If it would not change, then we can drop the question. If it would change, then I can at least be of help to the extent that I can say, you have already decided: you need a God.” [Brecht]
• "Lead, as I do, the flown-away virtue back to earth-yes, back to body and life:that it may give the earth its meaning, a human meaning! May your spirit and your virtue serve the meaning of the earth...Man and man's earth are still unexhausted and undiscovered." [Nietzsche]
• "Co(g)ito ergo sum"
• "The greek word gnosis, meaning 'knowledge' is used in three ways: (1) knowledge in general terms; (2) as mystical communion; (3) as sexual intercourse. Gnosis is knowledge by participation." [Paul Tillich]
• "Would that by rubbing my belly I could get rid of hunger." [Diogenes]
• "The other positive and affirmative element in Rilke is his approach to Eros. He had a high intuition about sex, both as a liberating force and also as the best riposte to the foul suggestions of death. His seven so-called Phallic Poems...openly announce that fucking is its own justification." [Hitchens]
• "the child's first erotic object is the mother's breast...for however long it is fed at its mother's breast, it will always be left with a conviction after it has bean weaned that its feeding was too short and too little." [freud]
• 'There are many excellent inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasant; the earth is to be loved for their sake...And there are many things so well devised that they are like women's breasts; at the same time useful and pleasant." [Nietzsche, Thus Spoke, Bk 3, Sec. 17]
• "I am the breast" [Freud]
• "Melanie Klein is right with her idea that there is a good breast and a bad breast, corresponding-broadly speaking-to the breast when it is present or absent." [Castoriadis] [Translation: The only bad breast is an absent breast!]
• '... Benjamin Franklin was, as usual, on to something when he said, "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Or, less judgmentally, and for secular people who favor a wall of separation between church and tavern, beer is evidence that nature wants us to be. ' [George Will]
• 'Why do we recognize ourselves as subjects of desire, and not agents of pleasure'? [-Foucault]
• "if there is any one who finds nothing pleasant and nothing more attractive than anything else, he must be something quite different from a man..."[Aristotle, NE, BkIII, Ch11]
• "Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im Falschen." Adorno: Minima Moralia
• "Sie wissen das nicht, aber sie tun es." [Marx, Capital]
• "Wo es war, soll ich werden." -Freud
• "Yet the absence of imagination had itself to be imagined" -W.Stevens
• "Radicalism is humanism or it is nothing; the proper study of mankind is man (and the ability to laugh is one of the faculties that defines the human and distinguishes the species from other animals.) [-Christopher Hitchens]
• "It makes no small difference, then, whether we form habits of one kind or of another from our very youth; it makes a very great difference, or rather all the difference" [Aristotle, NE, BKII, Ch. 1]
• Was macht bei dir die Geschichte jedes Tages? Siehe deine Gewohnheiten an, aus denen sie besteht: sind sie das Erzeugniss zahlloser kleiner Feigheiten und Faulheiten oder das deiner Tapferkeit und erfinderischen Vernunft? [-Nietzsche, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft 308]
• " Selbstbeherrschung...Denn man muss sich auf Zeiten verlieren können, wenn man den Dingen, die wir nicht selber sind, Etwas ablernen will." [-Nietzsche, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft 305]
• The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the shit the more I am grateful to him. He’s not f---ing me about, he’s not leading me up any garden path, he’s not slipping me a wink, he’s not flogging me a remedy or a path or a revelation or a basinful of breadcrumbs, he’s not selling me anything I don’t want to buy — he doesn’t give a bollock whether I buy or not — he hasn’t got his hand over his heart. Well, I’ll buy his goods, hook, line and sinker, because he leaves no stone unturned and no maggot lonely. He brings forth a body of beauty. His work is beautiful. -- Harold Pinter [on Beckett]
• A man asked Mr. K. whether there is a God. Mr. K. said: “I advise you to consider whether, depending on the answer, your behavior would change. If it would not change, then we can drop the question. If it would change, then I can at least be of help to the extent that I can say, you have already decided: you need a God.” [Brecht]
• "Lead, as I do, the flown-away virtue back to earth-yes, back to body and life:that it may give the earth its meaning, a human meaning! May your spirit and your virtue serve the meaning of the earth...Man and man's earth are still unexhausted and undiscovered." [Nietzsche]
• "Co(g)ito ergo sum"
• "The greek word gnosis, meaning 'knowledge' is used in three ways: (1) knowledge in general terms; (2) as mystical communion; (3) as sexual intercourse. Gnosis is knowledge by participation." [Paul Tillich]
• "Would that by rubbing my belly I could get rid of hunger." [Diogenes]
• "The other positive and affirmative element in Rilke is his approach to Eros. He had a high intuition about sex, both as a liberating force and also as the best riposte to the foul suggestions of death. His seven so-called Phallic Poems...openly announce that fucking is its own justification." [Hitchens]
• "the child's first erotic object is the mother's breast...for however long it is fed at its mother's breast, it will always be left with a conviction after it has bean weaned that its feeding was too short and too little." [freud]
• 'There are many excellent inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasant; the earth is to be loved for their sake...And there are many things so well devised that they are like women's breasts; at the same time useful and pleasant." [Nietzsche, Thus Spoke, Bk 3, Sec. 17]
• "I am the breast" [Freud]
• "Melanie Klein is right with her idea that there is a good breast and a bad breast, corresponding-broadly speaking-to the breast when it is present or absent." [Castoriadis] [Translation: The only bad breast is an absent breast!]
• '... Benjamin Franklin was, as usual, on to something when he said, "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Or, less judgmentally, and for secular people who favor a wall of separation between church and tavern, beer is evidence that nature wants us to be. ' [George Will]
• 'Why do we recognize ourselves as subjects of desire, and not agents of pleasure'? [-Foucault]
• "if there is any one who finds nothing pleasant and nothing more attractive than anything else, he must be something quite different from a man..."[Aristotle, NE, BkIII, Ch11]
• "Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im Falschen." Adorno: Minima Moralia
• "Sie wissen das nicht, aber sie tun es." [Marx, Capital]
• "Wo es war, soll ich werden." -Freud
• "Yet the absence of imagination had itself to be imagined" -W.Stevens
• "Radicalism is humanism or it is nothing; the proper study of mankind is man (and the ability to laugh is one of the faculties that defines the human and distinguishes the species from other animals.) [-Christopher Hitchens]
• "It makes no small difference, then, whether we form habits of one kind or of another from our very youth; it makes a very great difference, or rather all the difference" [Aristotle, NE, BKII, Ch. 1]
• Was macht bei dir die Geschichte jedes Tages? Siehe deine Gewohnheiten an, aus denen sie besteht: sind sie das Erzeugniss zahlloser kleiner Feigheiten und Faulheiten oder das deiner Tapferkeit und erfinderischen Vernunft? [-Nietzsche, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft 308]
• " Selbstbeherrschung...Denn man muss sich auf Zeiten verlieren können, wenn man den Dingen, die wir nicht selber sind, Etwas ablernen will." [-Nietzsche, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft 305]
• The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the shit the more I am grateful to him. He’s not f---ing me about, he’s not leading me up any garden path, he’s not slipping me a wink, he’s not flogging me a remedy or a path or a revelation or a basinful of breadcrumbs, he’s not selling me anything I don’t want to buy — he doesn’t give a bollock whether I buy or not — he hasn’t got his hand over his heart. Well, I’ll buy his goods, hook, line and sinker, because he leaves no stone unturned and no maggot lonely. He brings forth a body of beauty. His work is beautiful. -- Harold Pinter [on Beckett]
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