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“Live, and be happy, and make others so.” — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Good or bad are theoretical stipulations according to which, by a philosophical decision, many scattered instances of the most different facts or acts become the same thing. (1/2)

“A fool is someone who doesn’t recognize a fool, and, even more, someone who does, but doesn’t get rid of him.” — Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“A text never has the completeness or finality that it might seem to possess. There is always something beyond it — a kind of truth that it can point to but never contain.” Read more: suliqyre.com/posts/texts-...

From Wittgenstein's Nachlass, MS 118 (16 August 1937)

“I have the feeling that I would not be completely without ideas, but that the solitude will depress me, that I will not be able to work. I am afraid that in my house all my thoughts will be killed off, that there a spirit of despondency will take complete possession of me.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” — Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don’t write. ... To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.” — Stanisław Lem, Hospital of the Transfiguration

From Schlegel's Athenaeum Fragments

“Universality is the successive satiation of all forms and substances. Universality can attain harmony only through the conjunction of poetry and philosophy; and even the greatest, most universal works of isolated poetry and philosophy seem to lack this final synthesis.” — Friedrich Schlegel

“The experience of beauty is always joyful. It seems to meet some profound need that lives inside me. At the same time, the beautiful transcends whatever pleasure it brings. It seems to indicate a greater truth about the world or the being that I am.” Read more: suliqyre.com/posts/the-jo...

I do not want to feel shy about anything in the compilation of my notes. I will not establish any order or systems. What I recall is what I will write.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“I am writing only for myself and will declare once and for all that if I write as though I am addressing a reader it is only just for show, because it is easier for me to write that way. ... (1/2)

“All oppression creates a state of war.” — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“I am a little scared: scared of surrendering completely because the next instant is the unknown. The next instant, do I make it? or does it make itself? We make it together with our breath. And with the flair of the bullfighter in the ring.” — Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

“All men have a natural fear of making a mistake — by believing too well of a person. However, the error of believing too ill of a person is perhaps not feared, at least not in the same degree as the other.” — Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love

“Instead of being distracted by trivialities, you need to allow your focus to return to those creative and compassionate actions that are the solutions to the real problems you face.” Read more: suliqyre.substack.com/p/anxious-at...

“I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Primacy of Perception

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.” — Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

“The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.” — George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life