“Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small ones; and in this complex world, the well-being of the whole depends entirely on the sum of well-being enjoyed by each of the least microscopic particles of organized matter. A whole revolution is thus produced in the philosophy of life.” WorldWellsMatterPhilosophyWholeIndividualLife PhilosophyRevolutionDependsComplexesCellsEnjoyedWell BeingOrganizedCosmosOrgansParticles Book:Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
“The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's a refraction of the cosmos. The cosmos delights in itself.” SelfIndividualPerfectEffortEnlightenmentProfoundDelightLiftsCosmos Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial streams which give us such worlds of salutary illusion. That is - since nothing means anything in itself, we must preserve the proximate and arbitrary background which makes things around us seem as if they did mean something.” IfsWorldGivingMeanSeemsValuesIndividualInterestIllusionBackgroundsSecurePreservesStreamsCosmosMeaninglessArtificialArbitraryEnglishmen Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“We now should be able to see cosmos and individual joined in a relationship. We should see that macrocosm and microcosm are, as it were, only far-flung parts of one unified energy center.” ShouldAbleIndividualEnergyCosmosUnifiedMicrocosm Book:Lectures on the Source: Lectures on the
“The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family passions to the passions and ideals that bind individuals to new family units, to their communities, to the species, to nature, to the cosmos. Therefore, given half a chance, the revolution at issue in adolescence becomes a revolution of transformation, not of annihilation.” PastPurposePassionIndividualGivenCommunityChanceHalfIssuesRevolutionIdealsTransformationSpeciesCosmosAdolescenceUnitsAnnihilationDeploymentFamily UnitNew Family Author:Louise J. Kaplan