“Whosoever is delighted in solitude…” Francis Bacon
Thus also the city-state is prior in nature to the household and to each of us individually. For the whole must necessarily be prior to the part; since when the whole body is destroyed, foot or hand will not exist except in an equivocal sense, like the sense in which one speaks of a hand […]
On Luis Buñuel’s aphorism: “Thank God I’m an atheist”
― Mais quelle est votre attitude maintenant vis-à-vis de la religion? ― Je n’ai pas d’attitude. J’ai été élevé dedans. Je pourrais répondre «Je suis toujours athée, grâce à Dieu.» Je crois qu’il faut chercher Dieu dans l’homme. C’est un attitude très simple. ☛ L’Express: “Luis Buñuel: athée grâce à Dieu” by Michèle Manceaux, May […]
“The Confronted Community” by Jean-Luc Nancy, 2001
At this point, I will conclude by returning to the event that is spreading across the world at the present time (let me say it again, October 2001) and especially across the Western world and along its edges, upon its internal and external confines (if there are any longer any external confines), taking on all […]
Nietzsche: God, activity and boredom
Spirit and boredom.— The saying “The Magyar is much too lazy to feel bored” is thought-provoking. Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.— A theme for a great poet would be God’s boredom on the seventh day of creation. ☛ Human, All Too Human, Volume II, Part Two “The Wanderer and […]
