vigilius haufneinsis

"whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate." from the concept of dread 


bonus points who anyone who actually knows who this is without using the internet to find it...

frederica mathewes-green

"it is possible for cultures to change for the better, once given a dose of truth. like a body, a culture has innate impulse to health. though this can be subverted in a million ways it can be nurtured as well. this should give us hope."

wittgenstein

the sense of the world must be outside of the world.
                                          -ludwig wittgenstein

an excerpt taken from the world is made of stories by david r. loy.

a tidbit from the "other" immigration problem

"I'm a German citizen for two decades already. I took up responsibility for the German society. I'm serving the German people as a parliamentarian, but I'm still 'the Turkish guy.'" -Ozcan Mutlu

Camus_The Myth of Sisyphus

Now the main thing is done, I hold certain facts from which I cannot separate. What I know, what is certain, what I cannot deny, what I cannot reject—this is what counts. I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me—that is what I understand. And these two certainties—my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle—I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition?