Posted on July 6, 2010January 3, 2018 To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something that must be abolished, is the supreme idiocy, in a general sense a real disaster in its consequences… almost as stupid as the will to abolish bad weather.
Posted on July 4, 2010January 3, 2018 If life and existence were an enjoyable state, then everyone would reluctantly approach the unconscious state of sleep and would gladly rise from it again. But the very opposite is the case, for everyone very willingly goes to sleep and unwillingly gets up again.
Posted on April 27, 2010January 3, 2018 Upon the highest throne in the world, we are seated, still, upon our arses.
Posted on January 21, 2010January 3, 2018 The office is to the modern world what the cloister was to the medieval Christendom; a chaste arena with an unrivaled capacity to excite desire.
Posted on February 2, 2009January 11, 2018 As conditional love begins to lose its interest for us, so, too, may a number of the things we pursue in order to secure that love. If wealth, esteem and power buy us a kind of regard that will last only so long as our status holds, but conversely we are destined to end our lives defenseless and disheveled, longing to be comforted like small children, then we have an unusually clear reason to concentrate our energies on those relationships which will best survive the erosion of our standing.
Posted on January 8, 2009January 11, 2018 Culture is the word we have assigned to the force that assists us in identifying which of our many sensations we should focus on and apportion value to.