dysaesthetic
we were always two strangers
(formerly "drownings") hypersensitive in person & in-vitro, residing in germany (at times JP), feeling at home in the whole world. not a firm believer of social constructs like national borders. ♈︎.running after love, enjoying melancholy. (in)sane and lingering. personal tumblr = chaos & mind. fanfic tumblr: inquisitor-of-hearts
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“Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.”
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées
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“Etymologically, integrity is oneness, integration is what makes something one. To be a thing, one thing, a unity, an entity; to be anything at all: in the metaphysical sense, that is what it means to have integrity. But we use the term for someone who lives up to his own standards. And that is because we think that living up to them is what makes him one, and so what makes him a person at all. It is the conceptions of ourselves that are most important to us that give rise to unconditional obligations. For to violate them is to lose your integrity and so your identity, and to no longer be who you are.”
— Christine M. Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity
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“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life
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“In the end, hope, wrested from reality by negating it, is the only form in which truth appears. Without hope, the idea of truth would be scarcely even thinkable, and it is the cardinal untruth, having recognized existence to be bad, to present it as truth simply because it has been recognized.”
— Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 61
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Moscow, Russia.
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“We are born only once and cannot be born twice, and must forever live no more. You don’t control tomorrow, yet you postpone joy. Life is ruined by putting things off, and each of us dies without truly living.”
— Epicurus, Vatican Sayings
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“I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’”
— Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
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“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”
— Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
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