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Arthur Schopenhauer/Varoluşun Boşluğu
Hayatımızdaki her olay için sadece bir anlığına “oluyor” diyebiliriz; ardından sonsuza dek “oldu” demek zorundayız. Her akşam bir günümüz eksiliyor hayatımızdan. Eğer varlığımızın en derinliklerinde sonsuzluk pınarının bize ait olduğunun ve böylece hayatı her zaman tazeleyebileceğimizin gizlice bilincinde olmasaydık, bu kısa zaman diliminin elimizden böyle kayıp gitmesine muhtemelen öfkelenirdik.Bu...
Arthur Schopenhauer/The Emptiness of Existence
A man to his astonishment all at once becomes conscious of existing after having been in a state of non-existence for many thousands of years, when, presently again, he returns to a state of non-existence for an equally long time. This cannot possibly be true, says the heart; and even the crude mind, after giving the matter its consideration, must have some sort of presentiment of the ideality...
Nietzsche/On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
"And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened. For this
intellect has no additional mission which would lead it beyond human life. Rather, it
is human, and only its possessor and begetter takes it so solemnly-as though the
world's axis turned within it. But if we could communicate with the gnat, we would
learn that he likewise flies through the air with the same solemnity, that he feels the
flying center of the universe within himself. There is nothing so...
Depresyon
Hiçbir sorun küçük bir sorun değil artık, her sorun dünyanın sonu gibi
görünüyor, en azından dünyanın sonu olmalı. Dağınık odaya, yerdeki kıyafetlere
bakıp boğuluyormuş gibi hissettiğinizde odayı toparlamak yerine aklınıza ilk
gelen çözüm intihar oluyor. (Gerçi onun için de gayret gerekir ya.) O büyük ve
derin sıkıntılarınızdan çok yağ lekeli bulaşıklar bıktırıyor sizi her şeyden.
Sizi öyle bir ele geçiriyor ki başka türlü hissetmeyi tahayyül edemiyorsunuz.
Yalnızken geçirdiğiniz gribe...
Doç. Dr. Ayhan Aydın/İnsanca Varolma Sanatı
“... nefret ve öfke gibi, bir anlamda olumsuz ve yıkıcı duyguların bile, benliği koruyucu ve geliştirici özellikler taşıdığı söylenebilir. Başka bir anlatımla nefret etme ve öfke duyma, bazen bireyin ruhsal intiharını önlemenin tek yoludu...
Sinek Evcilleştirimi
Öncelikle cam bir kavanoz hazırlayın sineğiniz için. Kavanoza birkaç kuru yaprak, iki veya üç su kapağı koyun. Su kapakları şeker ve su için beslenme kapları olarak kullanılacak. Yapraklar da yatak. Kapağında ufak delikler açın. Bu delikler sinekten küçük pipet ucundan büyük olmalı. Farklı eşyalar da kullanabilirsiniz ama cam olması daha iyi olur gözlemleme açısından.Sineği yakalayın. ancak dikkat etmeniz gereken bazı şeyler var burada. Kesinlikle yapışkan şeyleri yem olarak kullanma gafletine...
Plato/The Laws
"And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life, not because the law of the state requires him, nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him, nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty. For him, what ceremonies...
Aristotle/Nicomachean Ethics
"Whether a man can treat himself unjustly or not, is evident from what has been said. for (a) one class of just acts are those acts in accordance with any virtue which are prescribed by the law; e.g., the law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not expressly permit it forbids. Again, when a man in violation of the law harms another (otherwise than in retaliation) voluntarily, he acts unjustly, and a voluntary agent is one who knows both the person he is affecting by his...
Leonard Cohen/This Isn't China
Hold me closeand tell me what the world is likeI don’t want to look outsideI want to depend on your eyesand your lipsI don’t want to feel anythingbut your handon the old raw bumperI don’t want to feel anything elseIf you love the dead rocksand the huge rough pine treesOk I like them tooTell me if the windmakes a pretty soundin the billion billion needlesI’ll close my eyes and smileTell me if it’s a good morningor a clear morningTell me what the fuck kind of morningit isand I’ll buy...
Federico Garcia Lorca/Tatlı Yakınma Sonesi
kaybetmekten korkuyorummucizesini heykelsi gözlerinin,aldığım hissi yalnız gülden nefesinyüzüme değdiğinde geceleriüzgünüm bu kıyıda olmaktan dalsız bir kütük gibiama en çok üzen beniıstırabımın kurtçuğunu besleyecek birçiçeğimin, bir meyvem veya balçığımın olmamasısaklı hazinemsen benimeğer çarmıhımsan, ağrımsan ıslakeğer ki bir köpeksem ben senin emrindebırakma kaybedeyim kazandıklarımıve nehrinin kollarını bezeyabancılaşmış sonbaharımın yaprakları...
Georges Minois/İntiharın Tarihi
"Ölümün bilinmeyenine doğru çekip gitmeyi tercih eden kişi, kuramlara, ideolojilere, inançlara, tasarılara, yöneticilerin vaatlerine hiç inanmadığını gösterir. Yöneticilere de ona deli süsü vermekten başka çare kalmaz, çünkü bu her tür sorumluluğu ortadan kaldırır: İntihar edenlerin, ama aynı zamanda ve belki de yaşayanların sorumluluğunu. En liberal sistemler bile intiharı kabul etmek ve bu konuda konuşma özgürlüğünü hoş görmek istemez. İntihar insanlığın belki de son büyük tabusudur.""Yaşamın...
Arthur Schopenhauer/On Suicide
To have a right or claim to something means simply to be able to do it, take it, or use it without thereby injuring anyone else. Simplex sigillum veri. It is clear from this how meaningless are many questions, for example whether we have the right to take our own life. But as regards the claims that others may have on us personally, these rest on the condition of our being alive and fall to the ground when that condition no longer applies. It is an extravagant demand that a man who no...
David Hume/On Suicide
8.What is the meaning then of that principle that a man who, tired
of life and hunted by pain and misery, bravely overcomes all the natural terrors of death and makes his escape from this cruel scene; that
such a man I say, has incurred the indignation of his Creator by
encroaching on the office of divine providence, and disturbing the
order of the universe? Shall we assert that the Almighty has reserved
to himself in any peculiar manner the disposal of the lives of men,
and has not submitted...
Simon Armitage/I Am Very Bothered
I am very bothered when I thinkof the bad things I have done in my life.Not least that time in the chemistry labwhen I held a pair of scissors by the bladesand played the handlesin the naked lilac flame of the Bunsen burner;then called your name, and handed them over.O the unrivalled stench of branded skinas you slipped your thumb and middle finger in,then couldn't shake off the two burning rings. Marked,the doctor said, for eternity.Don't believe me, please, if I saythat was just my butterfingered...
Simon Armitage/To Do List
Sharpen all pencils.
Check off-side rear tyre pressure.
Defrag hard-drive.
Consider life and times of Donald Campbell, CBE.
Shampoo billiard-room carpet.
Learn one new word per day.
Make circumnavigation of Coniston Water by foot, visit Coniston Cemetery to pay respects.
Achieve Grade 5 Piano by Easter.
Go to fancy dress party as Donald Campbell complete with crash helmet and life jacket.
Draft pro-forma apology letter during meditation session.
Check world-ranking.
Skim duckweed from...
Roald Dahl/Television
The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set --
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until...