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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d9f0356 | Whether fate or destiny really exist, the only thing I can do is enjoy the present and live as honorably as possible. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| a39caee | Turmoil accompanies every great change. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 31c125f | I will never be like ordinary people. If I must be different, then let me keep that which sets me apart. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 7a86f6a | The reward may be uncertain, but our doom is inevitable unless we try. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 02a3059 | Do not become so attached to any one belief that you cannot see past it to another possibility. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 82f6272 | My thanks for your hospitality, Roran Stronghammer," he said, raising his voice so that his entire troop could hear. "Mayhap I will soon have the honor of entertaining you within the walls of Aroughs. If so, I promise to serve you the finest wines from my family's estate, and perhaps with them I will be able to wean you off such barbaric milk as you have there. I think you will find our wine has much to recommend it. We let it age in oaken .. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| c3fe903 | Cuando la realidad molesta demasiado, simplemente se cambia. | Luis López Nieves | ||
| a0432a1 | Abandono mi pasado, pero no quiero olvidarlo. Por eso apuntare lo que debo recordar. | Luis López Nieves | ||
| b6d1563 | In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences of meaning. It did this by tying language to the gold standard of what things themselves communicate. Where randomness is disabled, authority should shine forth. | poetry communication being randomness rilke thing-poem | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 7b725b2 | The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it possesses ... the authorization to form a message that appeals from within itself. This power of appeal is exquisitely evident in the object evoked here. The perfect thing is that which articulates an entire principle of being. The poem has to perform no more and no less than to perceive the principle of being in the thing and adapt it to its own e.. | poetry being rilke thing-poem | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 15b30be | As we know, Rilke, under the influence of Auguste Rodin, whom he had assisted between 1905 and 1906 in Meudon as a private secretary, turned away from the art nouveau-like, sensitized-atmospheric poetic approach of his early years to pursue a view of art determined more strongly by the priority of the object. The proto-modern pathos of making way for the object without depicting it in a manner 'true to nature', like that of the old masters,.. | poetry rodin rilke thing-poem | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 309de7e | What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion to the antiquities collection. The author's point is not that the thing depicts an extinct god who might be of interest to the humanistically educated, but that the god in the stone constitutes a thing-construct that is still on air. We are dealing with a document of how newer message ontology outgrew traditional theologies. Here, bein.. | poetry god being rilke thing-poem poet | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 4bbb446 | A completely different aspect, however, the thoroughly incommensurable one, lies in the imposition of accepting that the torso sees me while I observe it - indeed, that it eyes me more sharply than I can look at it. The ability to perform the inner gesture with which one makes space for this improbability inside oneself most probably consists precisely in the talent that Max Weber denied having. This talent is 'religiosity', understood as a.. | religiosity | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| fdadc25 | Devi cambiare la tua vita! Questo e l'imperativo che supera l'alternativa tra ipotetico e categorico, l'imperativo assoluto, il comando metanoico per eccellenza. Esso fornisce la parola chiave per la rivoluzione, declinata alla seconda persona singolare. Esso definisce la vita come un dislivello tra le sue forme piu elevate e quelle piu basse. Io vivo, ma qualcosa mi dice con autorita inconfutabile: non vivi ancora correttamente. L'autorita.. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| 8dbcfd6 | A philosopher is one who, as an athlete of totality, is laden with the weight of the world. The essence of philosophy as a form of living is philponia -- friendship with the entirety of weighty and worth things. The love of wisdom and the love of the weight of the one whole are unified. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| 0b812f2 | For many intelligences,the thought of homely intimacies is associated with a spontaneous disgust at too much sweetness-which is why there is neither a philosophy of sweetness nor an elaborated ontology of the intimate. One must assess the nature of this resistance if one is to get past typical initial aversions. From a distance,the subject appears so unattractive and inconsequential that for the time being,only suckers for harmony or theoph.. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| e7779a3 | Something is indeed returning today - but the conventional wisdom that this is religion making its reappearance is insufficient to satisfy critical inquiries. Nor is it the return of a factor that had vanished, but, rather a shift of emphasis in a continuum that was never interrupted. The genuinely recurring element that would merit our full intellectual attention is more anthropological than 'religious' in its implications - it is, in a nu.. | religion immunitary practising | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| be3371d | It is not only the weary Homo faber, who objectifies the world in the 'doing' mode, who must vacate his place on the logical stage; the time has also come for Homo religiosus, who turns to the world above in surreal rites, to bid a deserved farewell. Together, workers and believers come into a new category. It is time to reveal humans as the beings who result from repetition. Just as the nineteenth century stood cognitively under the sign o.. | work repetition working practising | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 7a63a1b | I am already living, but something is telling me with unchallengeable authority: you are not living properly. The numinous authority of form enjoys the prerogative of being able to tell me 'You must'. It is the authority of a different life in this life. This authority touches on a subtle insufficiency within me that is older and freer than sin; it is my innermost not-yet. In my most conscious moment, I am affected by the absolute objectio.. | life not-yet status-quo will | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 879b5b6 | Let me repeat: the stakes are high. We must confront one of the most massive pseudo-evidences in recent intellectual history: the belief, rampant in Europe since only two or three centuries ago, in the existence of 'religions' - and more than that, against the unverified faith in the existence of faith. Faith in the existence of 'religion' is the element that unites believers and non-believers, in the present as much as in the past. It disp.. | religion religions | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 8a285ad | The novelty of the new, as noted earlier, stems from the unfolding of the known into larger, brighter, more richly contoured surfaces. Consequently, it can never be innovative in an absolute sense; in part, it is always the continuation of the cognitively existent by other means. Here, novelty and greater explicitness amount to the same thing. We can therefore say that the higher the degree of explicitness, the deeper the possible, indeed i.. | explicitness | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| ac9ef1d | Viewed in this light, life itself appears as a dynamics of integration that is equipped with auto-therapeutic or 'endo-clinical' competencies and refers to a species-specific space of surprise. It has an equally innate and - in higher organisms - adaptively acquired responsibility for the injuries and invasions it regularly encounters in its permanently allocated environment or conquered surroundings. Such immune systems could equally be de.. | spiritual religious immune-system transcendence practising | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 6a165c3 | only very few - only humans, as far as we know - achieve the second level of transcendent movement. Through this, the environment is de-restricted to become the world as an integral whole of manifest and latent elements. The second step is the work of language. This not only builds the 'house of being' - Heidegger took this phrase from Zarathustra's animals, which inform the convalescent: 'the house of being rebuilds itself eternally'; it i.. | immune-system transcendence language | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 8efd8eb | Alors que ce mauvais siecle approche de sa fin, le pressentiment se repand que l'idee de faire histoire n'etait qu'un pretexte. Le sujet decisif de la modernite, c'est de faire nature. | nature modernité | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 8b91fef | In this book, we will naturally be dealing primarily with the manifestations of the third level of immunity. I gather material on the biography of Homo immunologicus, guided by the assumption that this is where to find the stuff from which the forms of anthropotechnics are made. By this I mean the methods of mental and physical practising by which humans from the most diverse cultures have attempted to optimize their cosmic and immunologica.. | practising | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| a81be9c | As the following pages deal with the practising life, they lead - in accordance with their topic - to an expedition into the little-explored universe of human vertical tensions. The Platonic Socrates had opened up the phenomenon for occidental culture when he stated expressis verbis that man is a being potentially 'superior to himself'. I translate this remark into the observation that all 'cultures', 'subcultures' or 'scenes' are based on .. | vertical-tensions | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 1714cc8 | Repetition plus translation plus generalization results, with the correct calculation, in clarification. If there is such a thing as 'progress in religion', it can only manifest itself as increasing explicitness. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| 9f88ba3 | From the perspective of the radicals, the habitus basis of human existence is, as a whole, no more than a spiritually worthless puppet theatre into which a free ego-soul must be implanted after the fact, and through the greatest effort. If this fails, one experiences an effect in most people that is familiar from many athletes and models: they make a promising visual impression - but if one knocks, no one is at home. According to these doct.. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| af51e48 | It is not only through their complexity that the immune systems confuse their owners' longing for security; they cause even more perplexity through their immanent paradox, as their successes, if they become too thorough, are perverted to become their own kind of reasons for illness: the growing universe of auto-immune pathologies illustrates the dangerous tendency of the own to win itself to death in the battle against the other. It is no c.. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| 209568b | The notion that property is the means to all other means was ruled out by the new radicals. The deep seated ressentiment towards private property, indeed towards anything private, blocked the conclusion that follows from any impartial examination of wealth-producing and freedom-favouring mechanisms: an effective world improvement would call for the most general possible propertization. Instead, the political metanoeticians enthused over gen.. | world-improvement | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| a10a6c8 | Ibrahim's eyes darkened with an emotion Mark was unable to read. "I won't leave you; no, my friend, it is not possible." "Go," Mark whispered again from between his parched lips. "Get your family to safety. I'm too weak." "You will make it," Ibrahim insisted. "I give you my strength. Shatha gives you her strength, too. We go as one. What is it you Americans say? No man left behind. I more American now than Iraqi. I not leave you behind. Wha.. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| e07b96a | I've always loved catching snow on my eyelashes. | romance contemporary | Debbie Macomber | |
| 9521737 | Emotions can become habits - she said haltingly as she wiped her eyes. But habits can be changed"." | true wisdom | Debbie Macomber | |
| 6a3bb70 | Forgiveness is hard, and most people tend to hold on to their hurts, to take some kind of perverse satisfaction in them. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 9ea9630 | Mutfakta durup daha fazla soruya cevap vermek zorunda kalmayi istemiyordu. Disari cikip pedal cevirirken yuzunde ruzgari, ensesinde de gunesi hissetmeyi ozlemisti. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 54a6cde | You're a lovely woman...and a beautiful person besides. You deserve happiness. Isn't that what the Twenty Wishes are all about? Goin after the things you want in life. Places to see, people to meet, experiences to live. Don't hold back now. Go for it! | Debbie Macomber | ||
| b3a54ce | Hold that for me. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| c3194a4 | John F. Kennedy is reported to have said that we can forgive our enemies but we shouldn't forget their names. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| a0cd421 | As if this was more than she could imagine, Amiee asked, "What about a stove with more than two burners and an oven that actually works?" "All yours," Steve assured her." | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 8fde6ce | Failing to plan is planning to fail. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 23825b7 | Christmas is a condition of the heart. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 56707fa | You know if it'd been three wise women searching for the newborn babe, they would have asked for directions much sooner, found the stable, swept it out, and had a meal waiting by the time Mary and Joseph arrived. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 1efa0fe | If kindness can alter two people's attitudes toward each other, just imagine what it could do to change our world, one relationship at a time. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 978dcc5 | Palmer asked. | Debbie Macomber |