slapstick-nietzschean:

A Nietzschean interviews a Platonist (via ludimagister)

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is blowjobs.” - Camus. Probably.

Source:Existencial Comics

phreemessen:

Gnostic philosophy is a dangerous science. One of the greatest philosophers of all times said: ‘In much wisdom there is much sorrow; he who increases knowledge, increases sorrow.’

The knowledge meant by this philosopher was the inner science, the gnostic science, because he had experienced that if one tries, in reality, to approach this fount of all wisdom, one is plunged into the fire of purification. He had found that this fiery flame invokes inner conflict; it instigates the process of being torn apart. He had discovered that approaching this spiritual fire liberates forces that can then no longer be bound.

Gnostic philosophy is a dangerous science. Once the striving seeker has entered the holy temples of wisdom, there is no going back. He must go on, or go under. That is the condition; it is a universal law. There is great anguish on the path of ascent for the pupil who, through total self-sacrifice, tries to qualify as a servant of mankind. So there is great anguish for the human lifewave on the path of development. A cry of grief resounds the world over; it is mankind’s birth-pang, and it is a universal law. Man’s higher vehicles develop. The wheel of the world rotates in an eternal spiral, and every turn has its own precondition. Mankind is forced to go with it, to orientate himself to it, to attune himself to it.

“You are doing what is best and most beneficial for you if, you persevere in moving toward excellence of mind. How silly it is to pray for that! It is a wish you yourself can grant. You need not raise your hands to heaven; you need not beg the temple keeper for privileged access, as if a near approach to the cult image would give us a better hearing. The Absolut is near you - with you - inside you. I mean it. A sacred spirit dwells within us, and is the observer and guardian of all our goods and ills. However we treat that spirit, so does the spirit treat us. In each and every man resides an Absolute: which remains unknown.“

~ Seneca (Letters, 41.1-2)
Art:,The Watchers‘ by Marc Potts