aphorisms
A selection of aphorisms, as posted on twitter.
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Because there's no objective reality, it's up to us to create the world. Therefore responsibility begins in nothingness.
To fall in love is to take a holiday from oneself.
No statement is devoid of rhetoric. QED.
You can't form an opinion without excluding the majority of facts.
Art is not a critique of the world, but a denial of it.
All the world's a stage - because there's no natural language that lies behind rhetoric.
The end of the world implies the end of the past as well as of the future.
Philosophy that doesn't include everything is pointless: philosophy that does is impossible.
Privacy and privation are related: privacy once meant being deprived of public life. Now we're scared of being deprived of privacy.
Absolute freedom implies having no attachments of any kind.
Philosophy sounds like an advanced practice, but it's only the beginning. Its fetish for certainty is a sign of emotional immaturity.
An ideal world contains no fantasies.
There's no such thing as reality: only the convergence of multiple fantasies.
