The core

  • 883.

    You love your family because you have been placed within it. But to love humans that you meet in life is deeper for that love is not conditioned


  • 882.

    We pretend we are different than children. We pretend children are not humans

    [Here again we seem to have some concrete turning point; this and this age is when you stop being a child and when we will actually treat you like a human being. What absolute folly! What arbitrary nonsense! We will only stomach this to function as a society but I say to you, do not for one second believe in your own adulthood and contrast this to a young human and say they are a child. You do not see their humanity, only their child-being]


  • 881.

    All is religion. Religion is a system of beliefs and humanity works only by systems and by beliefs


  • 879.

    The social theatre is itself a field where sheep are caged; they are labeled and they scream to each other and nothing outside the cage happens for them. Most of them are content in this cage, for they do not realize they are caged.


  • 876.

    I am merely showing you something that already exists


  • 872.

    Only with my eyes closed can I look at them


  • 869.

    What is this filthy currency that you put in my hand? That you put in the hands of your children? I want no part of it, but I am forced to.


  • 866.

    We exchange freedom for functionality


  • 863.

    Humans are the creatures that move towards something. Life doesn’t move towards anything. It just moves


  • 862.

    There is a story that all humans must play. I must be human, so I must play. So the question remains: what kind of story do I want to play?


  • 857.

    It is also human to lose ourselves in stories. Just as we have done in the human story; the social theatre


  • 855.

    Awareness is the essential burden. You can never return


  • 854.

    Intolerance for intolerance is the only tolerable intolerance


  • 853.

    This field of illusion is our home


  • 852.

    Having shared all of my soul; I can return to nothingness


  • 851.

    I do not want to talk to you, because we don’t really say anything, but my humanity demands it of me


  • 849.

    Death is not a moment, it is a process


  • 847.

    To be not-at-home in humanity


  • 843.

    The expectation of quickness of human conversation gives us no time to consider if what we say is actually what we feel


  • 840.

    Everything we share must be polished in some way. Therefore some realness is always taken away when sharing. Unless we were to be unpolished, but that would not be appreciated or even accepted


  • 839.

    You will judge me based on what you read and hear, not on who I am


  • 837.

    Some small but comfortable garden prison. The prisoners don’t know they are in a prison until they go and discover the limits. The philosopher searches for the limits of our prison. The others are comfortable enough in their limited space


  • 834.

    I never wanted to be this, I never wanted to be someone not easily understood


  • 833.

    Please show me something I don’t understand, otherwise I will have no reason to live


  • 825.

    A nonsensical language only exists after our definition of sense


  • 824.

    How ironic that we place an explanation next to art (that which cannot be explained)


  • 821.

    Life has broken me and showed me I wasn’t broken at all


  • 817.

    As long as I make something with the eyes of others in my mind, it won’t be genuine


  • 815.

    Real art is not meant to be understood


  • 811.

    Beyond that I can say nothing of this. And what I have said about it so far, says nothing about it.


  • 810.

    Philosophers are those who are not uncomfortable with the uncertainty and chaos of reality


  • 809.

    Fakeness is the only reality we can have


  • 806.

    A society where unmarketable thoughts have no place


  • 805.

    Society needs madmen to exist so that they can define their own normalcy


  • 804.

    ‘My art’ is not my art at all. If I find something and then show it to you, is it then mine? Or was I simply the one to pick it up?


  • 803.

    My mind cannot contain it


  • 802.

    To be like something is not to be at all


  • 801.

    I never thought life would be this way. What way? I have no idea


  • 796.

    I walked to the storm, I thought tonight was my night to die. Lightning would strike and take me. I escaped the theatre and saw something beyond it. I realized I could never tell anyone, I am simply unable to. I didn’t want to go back. But I had to. I had to go back to the theatre.


  • 795.

    I was in a world without humanity tonight; indescribable


  • 793.

    Can a madman say he is mad?


  • 792.

    Only because you can’t understand it, doesn’t mean it’s not real


  • 789.

    Observation is not objective


  • 787.

    Everything exists next to each other and they do not clash, only in your head


  • 786.

    As long as there is true uncertainty; there is humbleness


  • 784.

    Humans have many sides, you know. I guess you don’t because you’ve hidden away parts of yourself to fit into a mould that has been placed on you since birth


  • 782.

    The outcome of philosophy: also nothing (just like everything else)


  • 776.

    Gay is only my label, not my identity


  • 772.

    We will never know freedom because we are eternally stuck in fleedom


  • 771.

    I am also doomed to flee to my own order and answers. Everyone has their own things to flee to; that is how humanity works. Writing stuff like this and believing it, is my point of fleedom


  • 769.

    I am also in religion; as everyone is. But I am in the religion that says that religion is merely an escape. But we can almost do no different than escape: humans are the escaping animal.


  • 768.

    When you realize others are just as confused as you; you realize the equality. This is why arrogance and certainty are big problems


  • 763.

    If something is uncomfortable to us, why would we buy it? But we find comfort in certain types of uncomfort. But it must be that type of uncomfortable to sell. And so in capitalism we are limited in this; I can not sell something that everyone finds very uncomfortable


  • 752.

    Why are you smiling to yourself, thinking: ‘I know this or that’. Do you not see the fundamental nothingness of life?


  • 749.

    Worldbreakers are worldchangers


  • 747.

    Living meaninglessly; is that possible? Isn’t that impossible if we say that humans are the animal that function by meaning? Am I then doomed to live meaningfully?


  • 741.

    If we take a different standard than ‘human’, then we automatically miss humanity-love, then we automatically make a hierarchy, then we automatically include and exclude


  • 740.

    I remember many days that I have thought: ‘today I will not act’. But every time I am forced to do so; forced to function like this because I am human. And I must be human, I can be no else. I would call this a cruel fate again; the fate of being human, but I know that it is not cruel at all; that it is merely perceived as cruel by humans. It is not cruel, simply the way it is.


  • 739.

    The social theatre is also very laughable, to see others and yourself play in it is so ridiculous sometimes


  • 736.

    How short is my sight
    And of those around me
    How small are our eyes

    What a cruel fate!
    To know this
    But to be unable to change it
    To surpass it
    What a cruel fate!
    But not cruel at all
    But merely a fate


  • 735.

    I am just as misguided as the rest of us. Knowing you are misguided doesn’t make you less misguided


  • 728.

    ‘This is how it goes’ actually means ‘this is how we have decided it goes’


  • 727.

    What does it mean to think in ‘a human way’


  • 725.

    It is philosophy that has pushed me ‘out’ of the social theatre. That has pushed me to be less human, so it feels. Is this philosophy a disease? Has it ‘broken’ me in my human functioning?


  • 720.

    The social theatre is not the conventions themselves but the fact that conventions exist


  • 719.

    When you say ‘nothing really matters’ people only react from within the social theatre: ‘that doesn’t sound good’. Oh please, good has nothing to do with this


  • 711.

    How laughably simple is the human animal that understands in terms of good and bad


  • 710.

    I am a worldbreaker. The world (the social theatre) must first be broken to make it better, to make us aware of what it is


  • 709.

    There is no other home than the social theatre. If I don’t feel at home there, where can I go?


  • 700.

    Definitions are creations, not realities


  • 697.

    We are the laughable yet beautiful creature


  • 695.

    It is not in reading poetry that something changes, but in living it


  • 694.

    I am so in my head, that I don’t notice the things outside it


  • 690.

    This generation will perish and the revolution will unfold because of this, just as history has always worked. A rebelling against and the rising up of


  • 689.

    In sight of love, lovelessness becomes clear


  • 685.

    How naive you are if you think that you are not naive


  • 681.

    There is this world and inside that world there is a species of beings; humans. And humans can only see this world in a human way. We don’t know if that is any different than the real world but I would say absolutely. And so that is the human layer. And these beings function in a special way, they live together and in order to do that they have made structures and systems. This is the social theatre: the structures of our being-together


  • 680.

    You can’t go searching for philosophy, that’s not how it works; you need to experience it, it needs to happen to you


  • 678.

    Slave of the social theatre


  • 675.

    The beginning of philosophy and the end come to the same thing: nothing. Socrates already said it when he said that we know nothing. And in the end we always come to that again.


  • 674.

    You only understand it when you understand that you understand nothing


  • 671.

    In observing the world, I am no’on


  • 667.

    Only in disappearance of humanity does truth emerge


  • 666.

    For my ideas to appear, I must disappear


  • 665.

    It is by these eyes that I start and it is these eyes that end me. I have no beginning at all


  • 664.

    [We are] the animal capable of ‘understanding’ but incapable of understanding the limitations of their own understanding


  • 660.

    Using human sense, human logic to understand something that is not human


  • 659.

    [We are] just another animal at the mercy of the world


  • 658.

    The absurdity of trying to understand a world that is not human, in a human way


  • 657.

    The collapsing of everything


  • 655.

    It is our limitation that we do not fully understand our limitations


  • 654.

    In life, ‘meaning’ has no meaning


  • 653.

    ‘Real’ philosophy is without argumentation


  • 650.

    A question that is not asked


  • 647.

    [We are] defined by miscommunication


  • 646.

    Everything can be criticized, because nothing is grounded on something


  • 643.

    Every talking is still a sort of show, a sort of game


  • 640.

    Being aware of the limitations of our awareness does not lift them


  • 638.

    Those who revolt now will object to the next revolution. How ironic.


  • 634.

    We pretend children can’t love

    [‘They are young, they do not know what they want.’ Get your grubby words off these people and let them be without your dominance!]


  • 632.

    Whatever love may be, it escapes all our words