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“There is an ancient story that King Midas hunted in the forest a long time for the wise Silenus, the companion of Dionysus, without capturing him. When Silenus at last fell into his hands, the king asked what was the best and most desirable of all things for man. Fixed and immovable, the demigod said not a word, till at last, urged by the king, he gave a shrill laugh and broke out into these words: ‘Oh, wretched ephemeral race, children of chance and misery, why do you compel me to tell you what it would be most expedient for you not to hear? What is best of all is utterly beyond your reach: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best for you is—to die soon.”

Mythology Greek Mythology Nihilism Existencialism

Book:The Birth of Tragedy

Source: The Birth of Tragedy

“Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human myth figures whose outsize griefs and loves and rages were applauded by ancient audiences as noble, right and true.”

Science Fiction Mythology Existencialism

Book:Children of Ruin

Source: Children of Ruin

“Paradox: When the intellectual part of the brain, is merely a servant in the hands of the animal part of the brain.”

Psychology Philosophy Quotes Neuroscience Existencialism

Book:Error: The Hidden Programs of the Human Body - Break Free from Autopilot and Redefine Conscious Living

Source: Error: The Hidden Programs of the Human Body - Break Free from Autopilot and Redefine Conscious Living

“Cada manhã, antes mesmo de abrir os olhos, ela reconhecia sua cama, seu quarto. Mas, às vezes, quando dormia de tarde, experimentava ao acordar aquela estupefação pueril: por que eu sou eu? Como se a consciência, emergindo despercebida do sono, hesitasse antes de se reencarnar. O que a surpreendia — como a criança quando toma consciência de sua própria identidade — era se encontrar no âmago de sua própria vida e não na de outra pessoa: por qual acaso? Ela poderia não ter nascido: então não teria havido questão. “Eu poderia ter sido uma outra, mas então teria sido uma outra que se interrogaria sobre si.” Isto lhe provocava a vertigem de sentir de uma só vez sua contingência e a necessária coincidência com sua história.”

Existencialismo Existencialism

Book:Misverstand in Moskou

Source: Misverstand in Moskou

“¿Para qué ha y que molestar a la gente que se muera, si de muerte es el final normal y legítimo de todo? ¿Qué esl o que cambia si un triste comerciante o un funcionario vive unos cinco o diez años de más? Incluso si consideramos que el objeto de la medicina está en que los medicamentos alivian los sufrimientos, sin querer salta la pregunta: ¿para qué aliviarlos? En primer lugar, se dice que los sufrimientos abren al hombre el camino de la perfección, y en segundo lugar, si de verdad la humanidad aprendiese a aliviar sus sufrimientos con pastillas y gotas, entonces abandonaría definitivamente la religión y la filosofía, en las cuales ha encontrado hasta ahora no solo protección ante todo género de desgracias, sino incluso la felicidad." - El Pabellón N. 6”

Russian Literature Realismo Existencialism Anton Chejov

Author:Antón Chéjov

“Rats died in the street; men in their homes. And newspapers are concerned only with the street.”

Plague Camus The Plague Existencialism Philosohy

Author:-Albert Camus