Twelve Types (1903) "Sir Walter Scott"
Context: The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.
Twelve Types (1903) "Sir Walter Scott"
“Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.”
Eulogy on Benjamin Hill, United States Senate, Jan. 23, 1882.
[2012, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom, World Wisdom, 7, 978-1-93659700-0]
Spiritual life, Happiness
“Stories are at the absolute center of human existence.”
Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)
Context: Stories are at the absolute center of human existence. Sometimes to disastrous effect; if you think about how various ancient religious stories — that may have been intended at the time as no more than fables — have led to so many devastating wars up to and including the present day. Obviously there are some occasions when the fictions that we base our lives upon lead us into some terrifying territory.
Inauguration of Library of Birmingham, Jan 2013
“For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.”
Source: Night Film
Source: Mother of Storms (1994), p. 54
“Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.”
Fragment No. 51; Jeder geliebte Gegenstand ist der Mittelpunkt eines Paradieses.
Variant translations:
Every beloved object is the centre of a Paradise.
As quoted by Thomas Carlyle in "Novalis" (1829)
Every beloved object is the midpoint to paradise.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
"Hamlet Borgianized", p. 154
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)
Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987), p. 28
Context: Man considers himself center of will and a center of perception. Will and perception are not separate but only appear so to the mind. The unity which appears to the mind to exert twin functions of will and perception is called Kia by magicians. Sometimes it is called the spirit, or soul, or life force, instead.
