Dawson S. Williams

@Kierkegaarddd Tireless

describe him in ONE word

@LiteraryVienna Never too late to commemorate Ludwig!

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” Ludwig Wittgenstein * April 26, 1889

Supplemented in every respect

Two photographs of Schopenhauer. The first is from 1853, the second from 1859. This would be his last photo because one year later, at the age of 72, he died. A few close friends attended his funeral, as did some poor people whom Schopenhauer regularly supported financially.

“The chief source of the most serious evils affecting man is man himself; homo homini lupus.” [Man is a wolf for man.]-Schopenhauer

“One should read especially the life of Madame de Guyon. To become acquainted with this great and beautiful soul and to appreciate the admirable nature of her disposition […]”-Schopenhauer

@VisStephen Yes it is! Even in English translation, almost every single line is quotable!

@DawsonSWilliams Hotdamn. Is this from Hyperion? I must really ready it

Here once the Sun God lived, amid the divine festivals at which all Greece shone round him like a sky of golden clouds.—Hölderlin

@popocambou It’s an essential work of philosophy and history. I am grateful to have read Spengler, Heidegger, Jung, Hegel, first, as Gebser directly responds to all these mighty predecessors! You also are introduced to a detailed analysis of Modern Art, and physics (from Einstein onwards.)

@DawsonSWilliams How’s the Gebser book? (If you’ve got to it yet?)

Phenomenology, History, Poetry.

Memories of London and the hospitality of cordial people.

Indeed, it is easier to know what one ought to do than to do it. For it is one thing to lead the blind and another to provide a vehicle for the weary. Not every guide supplies the traveler with the food for the journey.—Bernard of Clairvaux

'King of the Black Isles,' Maxfield Parrish, 1907.

I witnessed singular beauty

In 1813 Schopenhauer completed his dissertation in this building in Rudolstadt. He is 25. On a windowpane of his room he etched these words in Latin with a diamond: "Arthur Schopenhauer spent the greater part of 1813 in this room. Praised is the house that overlooks wide fields."

@BashoSociety A friend walks with me By the River-way— A dialectic of silence.

a late guest we share tea without words Ogawa

No cask holds two kinds of drink at the same time. If the cask is to hold wine, its water must first be poured out, leaving the cask empty and clean. If you are to have divine joy, all your creatures must first be poured out or thrown out.—Eckhart

1855, lost my dear father this year by death. Commenced putting "Leaves of Grass" to press for good, at the job printing office of my friends, the brothers Rome, in Brooklyn, after many MS. doings and undoings— Whitman

Encounters at the market