“Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays its often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize. Stillness is not just an indulgence for those with enough resources its a necessity for anyone who wishes to gather less visible resources.” FeelsYearsStillsEnoughWishChanceSilenceInformationMovementResourcesYears AgoUltimateAccessLuxuryVisiblePrizeStillnessIndulgenceAccess To Information Book:The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere Source: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
“The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.” MenWorldTryingWholeMomentsFactsMotivationTurnsWishGoalVisible Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“What is important to me in my work is the identity that is hidden behind so-called reality. I search for a bridge from the given present tot the invisible, rather as a famous cabalist once said, 'If you wish to grasp the invisible, penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible'.” IfsSaidImportantRealityGivenWishBehindsIdentityInvisibleBridgesVisiblePenetrateTots Author:Max Beckmann
“Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.” KindReasonOrderWishRoomsWallJudgmentBallsDancingAll KindsSatanVisibleDancerRighteousnessDisorderProvokingMischiefWildnessLevity Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy.” WorldMindMaySoulPhilosophyWholeBodyWishTeachPracticeProduceMythFoolishVisibleContemptZealWhole Truth Author:Sallust