#chaos

It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I might, I will never be able to explain to you the form of Will... My explanation would only show the correlation between myself and that Will by means of a correlation on the verbal level. The negation of cognition thus correlates to the negation of language. For when those two pillars of Western humanism, individual cognition and evolutionary continuity, lose their meaning, language loses meaning. Existence ceases for the individuum as we know it, and all becomes chaos. You cease to be a unique entity unto yourself, but exist simply as chaos. And not just the chaos that is you; your chaos is also my chaos. To wit, existence is communication, and communication, existence. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#cognition #existence #language #communication

The Chinese used gunpowder to make fireworks for celebrations, and the white man came along and said, Holy shit, we can use this to kill people. What better way to celebrate than that?
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— Jarod Kintz

#celebration #chaos #chinese #death #destroy

Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? ↗

— Emil Cioran

#cities #hate #riots #death

design is so important because chaos is so hard ↗

— Jules Feiffer

#design #design

Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#circumstances #inspirational #motivational #success #experience

He's a woman. He's a grown woman He's a old woman. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#viola #chaos

In chaos, there is fertility. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#chaos #diary #chaos

Drugs have a long history of use in magic in various cultures, and usually in the context of either ecstatic communal rituals or in personal vision quests. However compared to people in simple pastoral tribal situations most people in developed countries now live in a perpetual state of mental hyperactivity with overactive imaginations anyway, so throwing drugs in on top of this usually just leads to confusion and a further loss of focus. Plus as the real Shamans say, if you really do succeed in opening a door with a drug it will thereafter open at will and most such substances give all they will ever give on the first attempt. ↗

— Peter J. Carroll

#commentary #magic #imagination

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting. ↗

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#life #life

I'm beginning to think that to hope isn't the same as to expect something. To hope is to believe that life is an acceptable chaos. (h.5) ↗

— Goenawan Mohamad

#expect #hope #life #life