Norman Douglas, Old Calabria (1915), cap. 9There is no cause so vile, that some human being will not be found to defend it.
March 30th, 2012
1:30pm
η απορια του μη ησυχαζειν — Posts Tagged ‘human nature’
Insomniac passing anhypnic nights in writing, translation, music, mathematics, programming and whatever else captures my attention or alleviates agrypnia.
This consists mostly of quotations of things that stand out to me or reflect what's on my mind; occasionally I also post original, often more personal, content as well, which may be found under the "personal" tag. Anything posted under "translations" is also original work and may broadly be taken as personal as well as I seldom tackle a work that does not speak to or for me in some way.
March 6th, 2012
11:43am
Schopenhauer (via mygirlforever)Men are so constituted that they could not be happy in whatever kind of world they might be placed.
May 13th, 2011
4:35am
Alfred HitchcockWe seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed there some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
