“The first duty of the modern intellectual is to state the obvious, to puncture the smelly little orthodoxies contending for our souls.” — George Orwell
Follow your nature and accord with the Tao: Saunter along and stop worrying. If your thoughts are tied you spoil what is genuine. Don’t be antagonistic to the world of the senses. — Seng Tsan
Every phenomenon is like a dream
an illusion, a bubble, a shadow;
It is like dew and also like lightning.
So is all to be seen
— Diamond sutra
Aux lux hic nata est, aut capta hic libera regnat
Light was either born free here or, held
captive, here reigns free
—
inscription
in Ravenna,
among the mosaics
In nova fert animus mutates
dicere formas corpora
Now I am ready to tell how bodies
are changed into different bodies
some are transformed just once
and live their whole lives after
in that shape.
others have a facility
for changing themselves as they
please.
Now I am ready to tell how bodies
are changed into different bodies
In nova fert animus mutates
dicere formas corpora
— Ovid, Metamorphoses 7 CE (trans. Ted Hughes 1997 CE)
“Colour possesses me … That is the meaning of
this happy hour: colour and I are one. I am a painter.”
—
Paul
Klee, Tunisia,
16th April 1914
“The first person who tasted a crab must also
have tried a spider but realized that it was not as good to eat.”
—
Lu
Xun (translation)
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