Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything.

We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable tide of chaos. Gone is purpose; all that is left is direction. This...

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter – these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence...

Man’s first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger...

The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we...

apa? kamu mencari? kamu ingin membanyakkan dirimu menjadi sepuluh, seratus kali? kamu mencari pengikut? carilah nol!

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by our successors; the seeds of error and of ruin contained even in what...

ေလာက၌ အိပ္မက္ မက္တတ္သူသာ မက္ရသည္ပဲ။ ဒါဟာ နႏၵာရဲ႕ အမွားေတာ့ ျဖစ္သည္။ သို႕ေသာ္ နႏၵာမျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ရေသာ ေမြးကတည္းက ပါေသာ အမွားျဖစ္သည္။ ထိုိအမွားေၾကာင္႔ စိတ္သိမ္ေမြ႔ရသည္။ အထီးတည္းႏုိင္ရသည္။ သူတကာႏွင္႔ ေရာလုိ႔ မရသည္။ တေယာက္တည္း ဖဲခြာထြက္လာတတ္ေစသည္။ ေ၀ဒနာခံစားရာ၌ ျပင္းျပေစသည္။ ေလာက၍ အေကာင္းဆုံးခ်ည္း၊ အလွကုိခ်ည္းျမင္ေစ၊ ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းေစၿပီး အေကာင္းႏွင္႔အလွဆုိတာခ်ည္း ျဖစ္ႏုိင္သည္ဟု ယုံမွားေစေသး၏။ စိက္ကူးယဥ္ေစ၏။ စိတ္ဒဏ္ရာ ရလြယ္ေစ၏။ ေမ႔ေပ်ာက္ခဲေစ၏။

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

They are so very cultivated, so very rich and so utterly charming. At the end of each day, they all ask themselves: ‘Is it time I stopped?’ And they all reply: ‘If I did, there...

If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to look for it.

And it’s always better, isn’t it, when you discover answers on your own?

A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to...

The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.

He thought, that all men, trickled away, changing constantly, until they finally dissolved, while the artist-created images remained unchangeably the same. He thought that the fear of death was perhaps the root of all art,...

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness...

dari sekolah militer kehidupan: apa yang tidak membunuhku membuatku kuat

By dint of saying that I’m not alive, I accept the fact that people cease to regard me.

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

I started out a human being. But pretty much had all the humanity wrung out of me after passing the Bar and practicing law for ten years. Not sure what I am now.

The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn’t know.HAMM:What? What didn’t you know?NAGG:That it’d be you.(Pause.)

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our spouses were not going to show up out of the blue. It was...

Sans doute, rien n’est plus naturel, aujourd’hui, que de voir des gens travailler du matin au soir et choisir ensuite de perdre aux cartes, au café, et en bavardages, le temps qui leur reste pour...

Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own special privilege a certain unique destiny not afforded with equal measure to other...

I was dead for a billion of years and in a few years I will be dead again. I’m not conscious of that state of lifelessness which was before I came to life. And I’m...

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Youth’s longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Şimdi’nin gerçek özü kendini açığa vuruyordu. Şimdi var olandı, şimdi olmayan hiçbir şey varoluşmuyordu. Geçmiş var olan bir şey değildi. Hem de hiç değildi. Ne eşyada hatta ne de düşüncemde varoluşuyordu. Kendi geçmişimin benden kaçmış...

I relish my life. It’s the one I have. It’s difficult, beautiful, painful, full of laughter, passing strange. Whatever else it is, whatever it brings – it’s mine.

What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you’re not listening to the answers to questions you ask?” -Jo, Boom

Polarities of the ‘authentic’ vs. the ‘inauthentic’ are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but rather have to do with the rules by which the self allows or...

Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy’s favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.

And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten—since, in either case, other men and women will continue living,...

Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I’d like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one...

Some care is needed in using Descartes’ argument. “I think, therefore I am” says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day...

Then you think, is this a better world, closer to theone before you knew of wars—earth wars? Before you found that canary in its cagelaying, barely heaving. And you took it outside and said, Go...

kalau diinjak cacing akan bergelung. ini cerdik. dengan demikian berkurangnya peluang diinjak lagi. dalam bahasa moral: tahu diri

Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting...

…freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over...

I can’t go on, I’ll go on.