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Philosophical Investigations (1953)
2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero
Act I, sc. ii
Empedocles on Etna (1852)
“Metaphysics — what metaphysics do those trees have?”
Notebooks
Variant: Metaphysics — what metaphysics do those trees have?
“Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!”
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin
“What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“Slowly I came back from a weird, unfamiliar world to reassuring everyday reality.”
Source: LSD : My Problem Child (1980), Ch. 1 : How LSD Originated
Context: Slowly I came back from a weird, unfamiliar world to reassuring everyday reality. The horror softened and gave way to a feeling of good fortune and gratitude, the more normal perceptions and thoughts returned, and I became more confident that the danger of insanity was conclusively past.
Now, little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux. It was particularly remarkable how every acoustic perception, such as the sound of a door handle or a passing automobile, became transformed into optical perceptions. Every sound generated a vividly changing image, with its own consistent form and color.
“We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.”
Source: The Realm of Possibility
