Quotes, Excerpts, Anecdotes.

Jarno wrote:

Joseph Joubert wrote:

When the image masks the object, when one makes a body out of a shadow, when the world debauches the mind in charming it, when the expression pleases so much that we no longer go beyond it to penetrate the meaning, when the figure itself absorbs all our attention, we are stopped on the path. The road has been taken for the dwelling place. A bad guide is leading us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:

All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation

The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradation, and his scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature itself. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not good, they call it the worst, and what is not hateful, they call the best.

George Patton wrote:

We fought the Wrong Enemy!

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Datura wrote:

The path of no return..? arduous to take, but stunning views, once One is underway.

..a journey awaits, only for the most adventurous of souls, to take.

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Satyr wrote:

It's about motive.
Not to seek adventure but honesty...to want to traverse a path that no human has soiled with his choice, so as to see the original choice and to embody the one who first took it.
The need to see the world outside subjective bullshit, in the raw - come what may.
To dare to explore the unprecedented, not for its own sake, but to clarify the precedent.

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Motive, is momentum guided by need/desire - it exposes the traveler's intent - his/her will, and its freedom; its power to dare to peer into the abyss, even if it peers back - the strength, or integrity of motive, to endure this exposure to an otherness.

Datura wrote:

“All things are metaphors.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I guess they can be, if we want them or think them, to be..

Satyr wrote:

One is thrust into adventures, as life is an adventure and we are thrown into it.
Deception is often necessary.
So it is self-deception which I consider cowardice.  
To conceal oneself from oneself - to lie to oneself.

That's just a waste of a lifetime.

Satyr wrote:

Datura wrote:

“All things are metaphors.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I guess they can be, if we want them or think them, to be..

Things are abstractions in the mind, of dynamic pheneomna....so they are representations.
Words are representations of representations.  

Satyr wrote:

Words - numbers - represent abstractions in the mind which are, in turn, interpretations, representations, abstractions of sensual data - representations of representations.
All art is so.

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This is where nihilists become trapped - either intentionally or unintentionally; either because of a genetic or a mental deficiency, seeking refuge in their own representations - seeing concealment.  

Satyr wrote:

I don't think these degenerates ever "come around". They die living in their heads the lie they fabricated.
Modernity shelters them, allowing them to sleep away their lives in techno-cubicles, oblivious and comfortably numb - Matrix analogy.

Datura wrote:

But as well as noting that art was an obstacle to the contemplation of truth, Plato also saw it as a way to better know ourselves.. which I would say is true.
An Artist is constantly consumed in thought and judgement when creating a piece, or when thinking of what their next piece of work will be.. and so the artist becomes immersed in self-reflection and contemplation, in relation to, and apart from, all else.

Satyr wrote:

I've been a daydreamer since my early youth.