#posts

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks. ↗

— Frank Warren

#life #postsecret #risks #inspirational

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men. ↗

— Joe Frazier

#carolina #couple #grew #i #i came

There are no signposts in the sea. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#signposts

Lacan’s defenders (as well as those of the other authors discussed here) tend to respond to these criticisms by resorting to a strategy that we shall call “neither/nor”: these writings should be evaluated neither as science, nor as philosophy, nor as poetry, nor ... One is then faced with what could be called a “secular mysticism”: mysticism because the discourse aims at producing mental effects that are not purely aesthetic, but without addressing itself to reason; secular because the cultural references (Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, mathematics, contemporary literature ... ) have nothing to do with traditional religions and are attractive to the modern reader. ↗

— Alan Sokal

#mysticism #postmodernism #poststructuralism #religion