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Great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest! The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not...

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Stephen Vis
Stephen Vis@VisStephen·
"O Luna, by means of my embracing and sweet kisses, Thou art made beautiful, strong and mighty like as I am. O Sol, thou art to be preferred before all light, But yet thou needest me, as the cock does the hen." - Rosarium philosophorum -
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The Hermit in front of His Retreat (Carl Spitzweg, 1844)
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Athanasius@Athanasius_45·
In Plato’s republic the music stays exactly the same: εἶδος γὰρ καινὸν μουσικῆς μεταβάλλειν εὐλαβητέον ὡς ἐν ὅλῳ κινδυνεύοντα· οὐδαμοῦ γὰρ κινοῦνται μουσικῆς τρόποι ἄνευ πολιτικῶν νόμων τῶν μεγίστων. - One must watch out for any innovations that change music, for they are altogether dangerous, since nowhere are the modes of music changed without it also influencing the most important political laws and customs. Republic 424c
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Thea@TheaEuryphaessa·
On the unlived life.
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Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes@PeterSjostedtH·
‘No one may join the company of gods who has not practised philosophy’ – Plato (Phaedo, 82b–c)
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Ronald Christ@RonaldCHRIST12·
“It is remarkable that Paul, writing in Greek and certainly not ignorant of Greek terminological traditions, never uses in this connection the term psyche, which since the Orphics and Plato had denoted the divine principle in us.” Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion
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Fred Björn
Fred Björn@Jawnmard1·
“God created all souls round in the shape of a sphere and then sliced them into two halves and gave each half a body. Now if a body meets its other half from that sphere, love arises between the two of them.” — Ibn al-Dabbagh
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Ronald Christ
Ronald Christ@RonaldCHRIST12·
“One may envy Nietzsche a little; think of being so elusive,—so mercurial, as to be first swallowed whole, then coughed up, and still remain a mystery!” Hart Crane, The Case against Nietzsche
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Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles)@SophiaCycles·
A few years before Jung died he said to a friend that he felt his foremost task was to open people's eyes to the fact that man has a soul, and that there is a buried treasure in the field and that our religion and philosophy are in a lamentable state.~Anne Baring
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Mustafa@Maksimiilyan·
“İnsan olgunlaştıkça, etrafındaki insanların sayısı azalır; çünkü olgun Zihin, yapmacık nezaketlere (sahte iltifat) tahammül etmez.”
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Girardism
Girardism@Girardism·
René Girard on the sinister understanding between mimetic rivals: “The man obsessed is like a fortress surrounded by the enemy. ... The obsessed man astounds us with his clear understanding of those like himself — in other words, his rivals — and his complete inability to see himself. This lucidity and blindness both increase the nearer the mediator.”
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“Snobs understand each other at first glance and hate each other almost as quickly, for nothing is worse for the desiring subject than to see his own imitation brought out into the open.” — René Girard

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Mark W.
Mark W.@DurhamWASP·
“Is despair an aristocratic feeling? Perhaps. Defeatism, on the other hand, is very plebeian.” Alain de Benoist
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Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart@emmanu_elle_·
« Une seule chose est nécessaire : la solitude. La grande solitude intérieure. Aller en soi-même et ne rencontrer pendant des heures personne, c'est à cela qu'il faut parvenir. Être seul, comme l'enfant est seul. » Rainer Maria Rilke, Lettre à un jeune poète
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Stephen Vis@VisStephen·
@azcontour It is forbidden to import from Morocco because of EU regulation. Quality is high and price is low for that reason. I buy it from Moroccans returning from holiday in summer
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The best olive oil I had in my life was from a moroccan woman whose family cold pressed it for personal usage in her homeland. It was in a scrunched up plastic bottle and very green. I have not tasted anything like it, not even in fine dining restaurants in greece or italy.
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Atata@thanoumenos·
@realKalos Book? I thought maybe this but can't find the passage
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Καλός@realKalos·
Neoplatonic dialectic follows the anagogic patterns already presented in the Pyramid Texts (3rd millennium BC). Regarded as the supreme science, it shows concern for the solar "rationality" against the threat of isefet, irrationality, disorder, and darkness.
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Athanasius
Athanasius@Athanasius_45·
Plato famously was also concerned with all things musical: Τὸ δὴ φυλακτήριον, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, ὡς ἔοικεν, ἐνταῦθά που οἰκοδομητέον τοῖς φύλαξιν, ἐν μουσικῇ. - It seems, I said, the fortress of our guardian class must be built here, upon a foundation of music. Plato, Republic 424d x.com/Athanasius_45/…
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Dawson S. Williams
Dawson S. Williams@DawsonSWilliams·
"God! that I myself am nothing, and that the meanest workman can say he has done more than I!”—Hölderlin
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Girardism@Girardism·
“Everything, in fact, is false, theatrical, and artificial in desire except the immense hunger for the sacred.” — René Girard
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“Denial of God does not eliminate transcendency, but diverts it from the au-delà [the beyond] to the en-decà [the near]. The imitation of Christ becomes the imitation of one's neighbor. The surge of pride breaks against the humanity of the mediator, and the result of this conflict is hatred.” — René Girard

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