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søren kierkegaard on boredom
Idleness, then, is so far from being the root of all evil that it is rather the true good. Boredom is the root of evil; it is that which must be held off. Will Cotton: “Cotton Candy Clouds”.Oil on...
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simone weil on the sacred
“At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed,...
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game of drones
Filed under: personae, politics Tagged: democracy, drone, drones, evil, game of thrones, nationalism, obama, stupidity, syria, war
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two simones on banality and evil
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvellous, intoxicating.” — Simone Weil “In particular those...
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matthew 6: 22 – 34
The Lamp of the Body 22“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. 23But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If...
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simone weil – evil
Creation: good broken up into pieces and scattered throughout evil. Evil is limitless but it is not infinite. Only the infinite limits the limitless. Monotony of evil: never anything new, everything...
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simone weil – the impossible
Human life is impossible. But it is only affliction which makes us feel this. The impossibility of good: ‘Good comes out of evil, evil out of good, and when will it all end?’ The good is impossible. But...
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simone weil – contradiction
The contradictions the mind comes up against—these are the only realities: they are the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity....
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carl jung on the projection of evil (1957)
Quite apart from the barbarities and blood baths perpetrated by the Christian nations among themselves throughout European history, the European has also to answer for all the crimes he has committed...
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