Beautifully Pained Like An Angel In Purgatory

To know oneself means to be oneself, to be master of oneself, to distinguish oneself, to free oneself from a state of chaos, to exist as an element of order - but of one's own order and one's own discipline in striving for an ideal.
Antonio Gramsci


In this world there are three wrong viewpoints. If one clings to these viewpoints, then all things in this world are but to be denied. First some say that all human experience is based on destiny; second, some hold that everything is created by God and controlled by His will; third, some say that everything happens by chance without having any cause or condition.
Buddha


Whatever is capable of reason is better than that which is not capable.
Zeno


The misconception which has haunted philiosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of "independant existence". There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the world.
Alfred North Whitehead


Our existence is based solely on the ever-fleeting present.
Arthur Shopenhauer



Thus do I lie,
Bend myself, twist myself, convulsed
With all eternal tourture,
And smitten
By thee cruelest huntsman,
Thou unfamiliar - GOD
Fredrich Nietzsche


The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last.
Franz Kafka