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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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A Nietzschean interviews a Platonist (via ludimagister)
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher
“Whoever has endeavored, as I have, to think pessimism through to its depths and liberate it from Schopenhauer’s philosophy, has thus opened his eyes to the opposite ideal: that of the high-spirited, world-affirming human being who has not only come to terms and learned to get along with whatever was and is, but who wants to have what was and is repeated into all eternity.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §56 (edited excerpt).
In my 17th year, I was gripped by the misery of life, as Buddha had been in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and death. The truth was that this world could not have been the work of an all loving Being, but rather that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in their sufferings.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Aries:“Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself.“ - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Taurus:“Let heaven exist, though my own place be in hell.” - Jorge Luis Borges
Gemini: “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” - John Milton
Cancer:“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Leo: “I am still blazing in my golden hell.” - Sylvia Plath
Virgo: “There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in confining one’s efforts to securing a little room that shall not be exposed to the fire.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
Libra: “I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.” - Arthur Rimbaud
Sagittarius: “And the hell is not the torture of pain! It is the torture of a joy.” - Clarice Lispector
Scorpio: “Hell is—other people!” - Jean-Paul Sartre
Capricorn:“Each of us bears his own Hell.” -Virgil
Aquarius: “Life to them was a rat’s hell—they could flee it only with each other.” - Julia Kristeva
Pisces:“Hell has enlarged its soul and opened its mouth without any limits.” - James Joyce
