Great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest! The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not...
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Dionysus:
Be clever, Ariadne! ...
You have little ears; you have my ears:
Put a clever word in them! —
Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? ...
I am your labyrinth ...
- Nietzsche -
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Master Kong said, “The people can be made to follow the Way, but cannot be made to understand it.” (Lunyu 8.9)
子曰：「民可使由之，不可使知之。」
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It is now commonly agreed that the figure of Buddha was modelled after the prototype of Apollo. So, especially the bump of intelligence on the top of Buddha’s head, has been changed into a top knot of his hair, which happened to be fashionable in those days in Athens and….
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Heidegger’in geç dönem düşüncesinde kullandığı en özgün kavramlardan biri Verwindung’dur.
Verwindung; bir hastalığı, yas veya travmayı yok sayıp arkada bırakmak değil, onun açtığı yara ile yaşamayı öğrenmektir.
“Yaralarımla varım”
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Rudolf Steiner’s Apocalyptic Seals, painted by Clara Rettich after Steiner’s sketches, 1907 and 1911
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“Hegel is a curious case of an arch-intellectual who nevertheless has the psychology of a statesman. Authoritarian, imposing, hard, and a builder. His soul resembles that of neither Plato nor Descartes, nor Spinoza nor Kant. The caste of his character places him rather in the line of Caesar, Diocletian, Genghis Khan, and Barbarossa. And it is not that he was one of these figures in addition to being a thinker, but that he was precisely that as a thinker. His philosophy is imperial, Caesarean, Genghis Khan-like. And so it happened that, in the end, he dominated the Prussian State politically—dictatorially—from his university chair. I say again that this is a unique case in the history of philosophy. The usual thing has been that when a philosopher tries to be a politician, what happened to Plato happens to him. He went out naively to reform the State of Dionysius, and a few months later they had to buy him in a slave market in order to rescue his divine person, fallen into such extreme misfortune.”
José Ortega y Gasset, Hegel and America
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“The Cross of Christ restores all the victims of the single victim mechanism, whether it goes under the label of legal accusation, Satan, or principalities and powers.”
— René Girard, I See Satan Fall like Lightning, ch. 11
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“Whoever revolts against God in order to adore himself always ends up adoring the Other.”
— René Girard, Resurrection from the Underground: Fyodor Dostoevsky, ch. 3
ALT David andi Saül, by Julius Kronberg (1885)
“Denial of God does not eliminate transcendency, but diverts it from the au-delà [the beyond] to the en-decà [the near]. The imitation of Christ becomes the imitation of one's neighbor. The surge of pride breaks against the humanity of the mediator, and the result of this conflict is hatred.”
— René Girard
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"Thus is the [jñānam] of this: there is neither renunciation [tyāgaḥ], nor attachment [grahaḥ], nor dissolution [layaḥ]."
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"Finally there is henosis, which establishes the unity of the soul in the unity of the Gods, causing there to be a single activity of us and them, in accordance with which we no longer belong to ourselves but to the Gods, remaining in the divine light"
- Proclus
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“I disagree not only with Strauss but with Heidegger as well. The point that you raise is closely connected with Strauss's remark to the effect that I work from Dilthey rather than from Nietzsche. That I regard as a fair statement. What it means is that for me the tradition remains a living tradition. I am a Platonist. I agree with Plato, who said that there is no city in the world in which the ideal city is not present in some ultimate sense. You also know the famous statement about the gang of robbers whose members need some sense of justice in order to get along with one another. Well, that is indeed my perhaps overly conservative position. As you know, we are formed between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. Academic teachers always come too late. In the best instance, they can train young scholars, but their function is not to build up character.”
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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"Individuation always finds itself in opposition to the collective norm, since it means a separation and differentiation from the general, and a building up of the particular...
But the individual way is never a norm. A norm arises out of the totality of individual ways, which from time to time have a need to orient to a norm.
A norm arises out of the totality of individual ways, and can have a right to existence, and a beneficial effect, only when individual ways...are already in existence.
[E]xtreme individualism...is, of course, pathological and entirely opposed to life. It has, accordingly, nothing to do with individuation....
The more completely a man's life is shaped by the collective norm, the greater is his individual immorality"
--(Carl G. Jung, Psychological Types, CW6:563, 1921)
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“Humility is often merely a pretence of submissiveness, which we use to make other people submit to us. It is an artifice by which pride debases itself in order to exalt itself.”
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
