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“In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed into beliefs, ideas take their place in time, take shape as events: the trajectory is complete, from logic to epilepsy . . . whence the birth of ideologies, doctrines, deadly games.
Idolaters by instinct, we convert the objects of our dreams and our interests into the Unconditional. History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable. Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create fake gods, he feverishly adopts them: his need for fiction, for mythology triumphs over evidence and absurdity alike.”
― A Short History of Decay
Idolaters by instinct, we convert the objects of our dreams and our interests into the Unconditional. History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable. Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create fake gods, he feverishly adopts them: his need for fiction, for mythology triumphs over evidence and absurdity alike.”
― A Short History of Decay
“Invidiam oamenii din jurul meu,închiși hermetic în tainele lor și izolați de tirania obiectelor..Ei trăiau prizioneri sub pardesiuri și paltoane dar nimic din afară nu-i putea teroriza și învinge,nimic nu pătrundea în minunatele lor închisori.Între mine și lume nu exista nici o despărțire.Tot ce mă înconjura mă invada din cap până în picioare,ca și cum pielea mea ar fi fost ciuruită.Atenția,foarte distrată de altfel,cu care priveam în jurul meu nu era un simplu act de voință.Lumea își prelungea în mine în mod natural toate tentaculele.”
― Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată
― Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată
“His poorly constituted blood has allowed the infiltration of uncertainties, approximations, problems; his wavering vitality, the intrusion of question marks and exclamation points. How define the virus which, eroding his somnolence, has stunned him with insomnia among the universal siesta?”
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“Ah, give me madness, you heavenly powers! Madness, that I may at last believe in myself!”
― Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
― Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“I have been studying for forty years, which is to say forty wasted years; I teach others yet am ignorant of everything; this state of affairs fills my soul with so much humiliation and disgust that my life is intolerable. I was born in Time, I live in Time, and do not know what Time is. I find myself at a point between two eternities, as our wise men say, yet I have no conception of eternity. I am composed of matter, I think, but have never been able to discover what produces thought. I do not know whether or not I think with my head the same way that I hold things with my hands. Not only is the origin of my thought unknown to me, but the origin of my movements is equally hidden: I do not know why I exist. Yet every day people ask me questions on all these issues. I must give answers, yet have nothing worth saying, so I talk a great deal, and am confused and ashamed of myself afterwards for having spoken.”
― Micromégas and Other Short Fictions
― Micromégas and Other Short Fictions
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