'In the clock's over-loud ticking we hear the mockery of light-years for the span of our existence.'
PhilosophyExistentialTimeTime perceptionCosmologyHuman conditionScale
'In the clock's over-loud ticking we hear the mockery of light-years for the span of our existence.'
PhilosophyExistentialTimeTime perceptionCosmologyHuman conditionScale
The metaphor may overstate the contrast between human life and astronomical distances.
'In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.'
'In the end the tough guys are the truely effeminate ones, who need the weaklings as their victims in order not to admit that they are like them.'
'In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.'
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far …
In the great philosophy of Brahma, such violent turns of the scale are quite unknown. It embraces vast stretches of time, cycles of human ages, whose successiv…
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.