No More Learning
The
house IS m decay, hke the Dedalus house.
Whilst Eteoneus portions out the shares
Atrides' son the purple draught prepares,
And now (each sated with the genial feast,
And the short rage of thirst and hunger ceased)
Ulysses' son, with his
friend,
The horses join, the polish'd car ascend,
Along the court the fiery steeds rebound,
And the wide portal echoes to the sound.
The Latin Writers, Decency neglect;
But modern Readers challenge our respect,
And at immodest Writings take offence,
If clean
cover not the Sence.
Men are generally willing to hear
by which ease is favoured;
and as no resentment is raised by general representations of human
folly, even in those who are most eminently jealous of comparative
reputation, we confess, without reluctance, that vain man is ignorant of
his own weakness, and therefore frequently presumes to attempt what he
can never accomplish; but it ought likewise to be remembered, that man
is no less ignorant of his own powers, and might perhaps have
accomplished a thousand designs, which the prejudices of cowardice
restrained him from attempting.
--tell me--tell me, I
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Mobilization of the Planet
from the Spirit
of Self-Intensification
Peter Sloterdijk
In this essay, the interpretation of the present is based on a
kinetics origi- nating from three axioms.
But this attempt can succeed only if I
every kind of intuition, only if I apply to my case from the out- side, abstract schemes and rules already learned.
The
forms of active force
From Tao come, their only source.
A fragment of the South Babylonian version of the tenth book was
published in 1902, a text from the period of Hammurapi, which showed
that the Babylonian epic differed very much from the
in
diction, but not in content.
B) CONSTELLATIONS SOUTH OF THE ECLIPTIC
[319] Now these constellations lie between the North and the Sun’s
path [the ecliptic], but others many in number rise beneath between the South and the Sun’s course.
A ne^ scheme of civilization is forming, quite as strange to us, quite as exacting in the requirements it imposes on the individual, as the new technology-
Shall we find that we can adapt ourselves to this new order of civilization without liberal
Strange shapes from the
past appear in the dreamed bedroom, and then a voice calls: 'Shaun!
Among
animals we find nearly all our old friends-such as the horse, a rather rough example but strong, oxen with magnificent frames, goats and pigs in great
numbers.
GOOD government is one that operates
to the best that is known and thought.
It is nearly thirty
years since there was an
of Free-
masons, presided over by the Duke of
Brunswick, at Wilhelms-Bad.
I quit such odious
as soon as I can.
There isn't any Zeus,
" It is thus possible for the person affected to declare a sexual desire to be an " extraneous body in her conscious- ness," a
which she thinks she detests, but which inrealityhasitsorigininherownnature.
" This is called "wassailing" the trees, and is thought by some
to be "a relic of the heathen
to Pomona.
I have
the best of every man,
And find that to believe it is enough
To make a bad man show him at his best,
Or even a good man swing his lantern higher.
By
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
I have putt back the three
spellings/Wan once, Hsin once, Kiang once.
--
Awaking with a start,
The waters heave around me; and on high
The winds lift up their voices: I depart,
Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by,
When Albion's
shores could grieve or glad mine eye.
"
the New Law is not distinct from the
Old.
Epicurus, he says,
the orator
from his school, since he advises his pupil to pay no regard to
science or to method.
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Since the early nineteenth century, if you ask someone what Switzerland is, he will relate the history of Switzerland; those who seek to understand natural
are urged to study evolutionary history.
High in the
all alone
The wild swans whistle on the lakes,
But I have been as still as stone,
My heart sings only when it breaks.
