Bazlen was a great Taoist master. He taught me more than anyone else, without teaching anything. He was rather against writing, he didn’t think one should necessarily write. He thought one ought to try to be in some way, without necessarily writing about it. He had a stupendous line, which is published in his posthumous writings—“Once people were born alive and slowly they died. Now one is born dead and slowly has to come to life.”
---Roberto Calasso.
F. Rosenzweig:
"My life has fallen under the rule of a "dark drive"..The small-at times exceedingly small thing called "demand of the day" which is made upon me in my position at Frankfurt, I mean, the struggles with people and conditions, have now become the core of my existence..Now I only inquire when I find myself inquired of. Inquired of, that is, bymen rather than by scholars...[T]he question asked by human beings have become increasingly important to me...
Everyday life, it is clear, cannot possibly be ignored; one cannot exist entirely in the sublime realm of theory, no matter how "essential" it may seem when compared to dull, tedious reality."
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A book, what is in a book? Today there is only an imagined strawberry and a mouth.
What can one say? We live in a world where everyone wants to say something, and some people want to say everything.
one must write, engage, communicate, "express oneself" (unless one doesn't have much of a self in the first place)..one must say "one"....but the name that names least...
Well, what have you got to say for yourself?
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When you're grading papers even the movement of a fly appears interesting. Very rarely will a fly loop around a still centre; and there is nothing casual about its movement. The flight of a fly is full of suspicion and lacks any grace. It becomes apparent why it is so low down on the evolutionary scale. After all these millions of years you would have thought it would have added something to its repertoire, something beyond its innate cunning nature.
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When it comes down to luck or capricious decisions one often says something like: 'as the gods would have it' and not: as God would have it. Is there something about chance that necessarily implies plurality?
F. Rosenzweig:
"My life has fallen under the rule of a "dark drive"..The small-at times exceedingly small thing called "demand of the day" which is made upon me in my position at Frankfurt, I mean, the struggles with people and conditions, have now become the core of my existence..Now I only inquire when I find myself inquired of. Inquired of, that is, bymen rather than by scholars...[T]he question asked by human beings have become increasingly important to me...
Everyday life, it is clear, cannot possibly be ignored; one cannot exist entirely in the sublime realm of theory, no matter how "essential" it may seem when compared to dull, tedious reality."
~~~
A book, what is in a book? Today there is only an imagined strawberry and a mouth.
What can one say? We live in a world where everyone wants to say something, and some people want to say everything.
one must write, engage, communicate, "express oneself" (unless one doesn't have much of a self in the first place)..one must say "one"....but the name that names least...
Well, what have you got to say for yourself?
~~~
When you're grading papers even the movement of a fly appears interesting. Very rarely will a fly loop around a still centre; and there is nothing casual about its movement. The flight of a fly is full of suspicion and lacks any grace. It becomes apparent why it is so low down on the evolutionary scale. After all these millions of years you would have thought it would have added something to its repertoire, something beyond its innate cunning nature.
~~~
When it comes down to luck or capricious decisions one often says something like: 'as the gods would have it' and not: as God would have it. Is there something about chance that necessarily implies plurality?
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