to no longer speak of a third,
but of this
Is the earth steeped in wise men’s ashes any wiser?
that a part can discern the whole
is no less miraculous than
that the whole can discern a part
We stand at an abyss: either into nothingness, that is, absolute reification, pure thingness [absoluten Sachlichkeit], or we somehow leap into another world, more precisely, we manage for the first time to make the leap into the world as such.
M. Heidegger
to come to
each glance
a revelation
Communing with the world means taking on incurable wounds.
Pierre-Albert Jourdan
science can have no claim to truth until it can design an experiment without an objective.
All is falling.
Bas Jan Ader
it is time to, once and for all, condemn yourself.
we say “my self,” “my mind” like a leaf might say “my tree” never once recognizing that it will soon be shed and only the tree remain.