Epigrams/aphorisms

mixed_biscuits

mixed_biscuits

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Most world-historical intellects end up accumulating a few hundred aphorisms - if you don't, you're probably not a world-historical intellect.
 
mixed_biscuits

mixed_biscuits

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"Seeking guidance from one's own aphorisms is as foolish as wanting sustenance from one's own poop" - Leo Sayer
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
mixed_biscuits said:
"Seeking guidance from one's own aphorisms is as foolish as wanting sustenance from one's own poop" - Leo Sayer
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"After you take a poo, do you take some of the turds out of the toilet with chopsticks and you try to put them back inside your body just in case you missed out on any nutrients?" - Eric Andre
 
V

version

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I like that line of Foucault's when he was tripping in Death Valley,

"The stars are raining down upon me. I know this is not true but it is the truth."
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
“When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else’s esteem, we are very close to hating him.”
Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims, 1746

“To condemn oneself can also be a means of restoring the feeling of power after defeat.”
Nietzsche, Daybreak, 1881
 
WashYourHands

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
The child the father of the man

What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies

Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which, because it binds them, is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god

- Blood Meridian
 
V

version

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Virilio has some cool ones -

"One day the day will come when the day will not come."

"History progresses at the speed of its weapons systems."

“The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck”
 
C

catalog

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That last one adapted by ballard for crash I think, I'm sure ive heads him say that in an interview - the invention of the car is the invention of the car crash.
 
V

version

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I've never seen him mention Virilio, but he was probably aware of him as he was a big fan of Baudrillard. There's a quote from him on the cover of my copy of America.

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catalog

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The Simon sellars book talks about him a bit, there's at least a few chapters where he's mentioned. I got his book about the bunkers after reading that one, but I never finished it. Couldn't get into it really.
 
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