Category Archives: Misc

“They intoxicate themselves with work so they don’t see how they really are.” Aldous Huxley

For the time being, I gave up writing, there is already too much truth in the world…an over-production which, apparently cannot be consumed. Otto Rank

It seems to be difficult for the individual to realize that there exists a division between one’s spiritual and purely human needs, and that the satisfaction or fulfillment for each has to be found in different spheres. As a rule, we find the two … Continue reading →

For anyone who is alone, without God, and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Hence, one must choose a master, God being out of style… Albert Camus

Men, incapable of liberty, who cannot stand the terror of the sacred that manifests itself before their open eyes, must turn to mystery, must hide the truth. Carlo Levi

Neurosis and Psychosis are modes of expression for human beings who have lost courage. Anyone who has acquired this much insight will thenceforth refrain from undertaking with persons in this state of discouragement tedious excursions into mysterious regions of the … Continue reading →

“Devoid of imagination, as the Philistine always is, he lives in a certain trivial province as to how things go, what is possible, what usually occurs..and so Philistinism tranquilizes itself with the trivial” Soren Kierkegaard

“The whole order of things fills me with a sense of anguish, from the gnat to the mysteries of incarnation; all is entirely unintelligible to me, and particularly my own person. Great is my sorrow, without limits. None knows of … Continue reading →

“From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the new-born baby to the child of five is an appalling distance” Leo Tolstoy

“Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet” William … Continue reading →

“I drink not from mere joy in wine, nor to scoff at faith,  no, only to forget myself for a moment, that only do I want of intoxication, that alone.” Omar Khayyam