Alles Gut zum Geburtstag!
A very Happy Birthday, if such a thing is possible, to my beloved Arthur Schopenhauer. He would have turned 219 today, if hadn't died. Fuckin' life! Add him on Myspace and send him good wishes. Interestingly, his top 8 includes Heraclitus, Kant, Krishna, Niezsche, Mozart, Walter Benjamin and one "Jayson Tigerclaw", who appears to be a 21 year old Samurai from Texas. Myspace: Where history's great ones can meet and comment in Tila Tequila and Fall Out Boy's picture sections!
"There are moments in life when our senses obtain a higher and rarer degree of clearness, apart from any particular occasion for it in the nature of our surroundings; and explicable, rather, on physiological grounds alone, as the result of some enhanced state of susceptibility,
working from within outwards. Such moments remain indelibly impressed upon the memory, and preserve themselves in their individuality entire. We can assign no reason for it, nor explain why this among so many thousand moments like it should be specially remembered. It seems as much a matter of chance as when single specimens of a whole race of animals now extinct are discovered in the layers of a rock; or when, on opening a book, we light upon an insect accidentally crushed within the leaves. Memories of this kind are always sweet and pleasant."
-Arthur Schopenhauer ("Studies in Pessimism", trans. T. Bailey Saunders)
A very Happy Birthday, if such a thing is possible, to my beloved Arthur Schopenhauer. He would have turned 219 today, if hadn't died. Fuckin' life! Add him on Myspace and send him good wishes. Interestingly, his top 8 includes Heraclitus, Kant, Krishna, Niezsche, Mozart, Walter Benjamin and one "Jayson Tigerclaw", who appears to be a 21 year old Samurai from Texas. Myspace: Where history's great ones can meet and comment in Tila Tequila and Fall Out Boy's picture sections!
"There are moments in life when our senses obtain a higher and rarer degree of clearness, apart from any particular occasion for it in the nature of our surroundings; and explicable, rather, on physiological grounds alone, as the result of some enhanced state of susceptibility,
working from within outwards. Such moments remain indelibly impressed upon the memory, and preserve themselves in their individuality entire. We can assign no reason for it, nor explain why this among so many thousand moments like it should be specially remembered. It seems as much a matter of chance as when single specimens of a whole race of animals now extinct are discovered in the layers of a rock; or when, on opening a book, we light upon an insect accidentally crushed within the leaves. Memories of this kind are always sweet and pleasant."
-Arthur Schopenhauer ("Studies in Pessimism", trans. T. Bailey Saunders)
posted by PWS at 10:42 AM
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This is lovely.
I hope you're doing well. :)
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