Aphorisms 2011

Diesseits bin ich gar nicht fassbar.

Not all of the telepathic messages you received were addressed to you. You may have picked up one by accident.

In touching there is neither subject nor object.

Even a nightmare's prophecy can be prevented by a good interpretation.

Our dream is heading towards its interpretation, inverting time.

I am suffering from a severe midwife crisis.

A dream will only become true after it has been interpreted.

A dream will only become true after it has been interpreted.

Philosophy is a matter for the genius, NOT for common sense.

What of consciousness were not reality's absolute opposite, but a PART of it?

Love is an quake of space, a spacecake.

There is no place, nor is there space. Feel how your place is always already shaken by a metaphysical earthquake!

The degree zero of language is writing.

Our memory: a stimuli rejection of our neural network.

Our relation to the telepathic is neither one of knowing nor of not-knowing.

Only parapsychology could give an appropriate foundation for morality.

If man as a person is immortal, then the higher animals must also be. (Hans Driesch)

This f*cking anglosaxon approach prevents students from thinking!

Freedom is linked to necessity. Arbitrariness is alien to both.

A true experience of spirits can only be achieved in... freedom.

»Dein Herz ist wie eine Berliner Synagoge / Es wird Tag und Nacht bewacht / Ich wünschte es wäre anders / Aber es ist anders als gedacht.«

Making them as crazy as I am ... myself.

Women adore being refuted. It gives them the feeling of finally being taken seriously.

The Buddha must have reached enlightenment only after his death. His life must have been romanticised by ... those who plucked the fruits of his doctrine.

I only have faith in philosophers struggling with life. I cannot but feel pity for those combining there job with being director or manager.

Those babbling about the need for 'interdisciplinarity' and who tell you that "much work has to be done yet" are the true nihlists. They have been foreseen by Zarathustra.

Human sciences today are in profound need of spiritual orientation. What I have tasted of them up to now is so incredibly empty! It's abhorrent!

This man talks for an hour but has nothing to say. ("Thank you for this very instructive and insightful lecture." pffffff)

I wanna be the disciple of the philosopher I will be in my next incarnation (which I shall assume only if my current life remains as unenlightened as yours has always been).

I don't speak Italian but I just try, by italicising my Romanticism.

Ultimately, war cannot be distinguished from peace.

Polemoumen hin' eirènèn agomen, we are polemical in order to commit peace.

Ascholoumetha hina scholazomen, we don't go to school in order to go to school. ;)


Theodicy: a cosmic 'potatoe' is being peeled. There being no extra-cosmic 'bin' to throw the peelings in, they are recycled inside.

Je n'ai aucun besoin d'un Dieu que je comprends. (Bottéro)

Noctem amplectere mihi placet. Ani rotsee lashevet bemachsevat hashem. Kalè nychta o makarioi!

Our strongest motives upon which we determine our action are usually, nay, always, the ones we resist to.

Our death instinct is ultimately a ruse of ... the libido.

We need no teachers of religion! We need Talmudists! (And philosophers, to prevent you from getting all too stupid).

The essence of faith: a readiness to suffer.
Freud may have read Job III, before musing about man's Thanatos:
הַמְחַכִּים לַמָּוֶת וְאֵינֶנּוּ; וַיַּחְפְּרֻהוּ, מִמַּטְמוֹנִים.
Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

Quand on aime, on traduit. (Pierre Assouline)

We are all born crazy, only some remain it. (Samuel Beckett)

All (wo)men are Jewish, only some remember it. (Bernard Malamud)
Can (reflective) consciousness finally master any destructive death instinct? If so, how?

The concept of 'matter' has been a stumbling block for most, if not all, philosophers.

It suffices to walk one night in Vienna or Kaunas or Pécs or Lodz or Czernowitz to perceive that the streets are full of Jews who are not there.

Is Jewish (s)he whose grandchildren will be Jewish. (Adin Steinsaltz)

‎"La poésie c'est quand un mot en rencontre un autre pour la première fois." Jean Tardieu

‎"One's opinions are one's psychical fixations, nothing more nothing less. (thanks to MM)

Are not some autistiform 'disturbances' in fact related to... the third eye?

Had we not better refrain from language altogether if we want to do justice to 'reality'...

J'immisce mes spéculations métaphysiques avec des spéculations... encore plus métaphysiques!

Man is the weakest animal on earth! Man is so... feminine!!!

Beautiful women are ultimately not impressed by physical beauty, they are magnitised by spirit.

Does Being itself presuppose or transcend consciousness?

Has not Kant neglected to re-ontologise transcendental consciousness?

Can the knowledge of nature be itself a part or product of nature? (T.H. Green)

Towards the elimination of ethics as a system of precepts.

Free will is not a human faculty, it is an ontological possibility.

The exact numerical middle of the Torah: daroosh darash, "he diligently sought" (Leviticus X, 16). Its essence and meaning is to be sought, it is not a given. (cf M.-A. Ouaknin)

The universal is the local without walls. (Miguel Torga)

The novelist does not invent but transforms the real into a fable.

Our most tender and thrilling declarations of love arise out of a suppressed impulse of ... hostility.

The essence of psychic diseases: regression to previous states of our affect life.

Our social virtues: egoistic motives supplemented with erotic ones.

Those whom we admire as morally 'good' usually have been facing the strongest 'evil' inclinations in their childhood. So many Ghandi's and Mother Theresa's, so many neatly prevented... catastrophes!

Love and hate within us usually tend towards the very SAME object (i.e. 'person').

Our conscience: a form of social anxiety.

In my previous life I was... you!

Single women with spiritual wisdom: if you want to become happy, there is only ONE remedy: take a man whom you can be ... subservient to.

Depression is a form of impeded creativity.

Tears are the brickstones of the coming kingdom, smiles its cement, beauty its gate, love its sanctuary. Its soul is... Thou-ness, pure and intense Thou-ness.

If you start crying for the loss of something or someone, it's a sign that your sadness has always already been there, even before the moment of loss. Sadness doesn't need an immediate cause, you see?

The human psyche (the ‘subjective’) and outward history (the ‘objective’) may be intertwined, the world an extension of the soul.

War: an interference of two opposed time schedules: 1) diachrony (i.e. ordinary, linear time), and 2) synchrony (i.e. the time of victory, victorious time)

There may be a higher unity of the ‘moral’ (soll, ought to, should) and the ‘inevitable’ (muss, must).

And you, Anja Meulenbelt, and you, Gretta Duisenberg, and you, Helen Thomas, shall I explain your exasperating critiques of Israel? Let me guess: you are profoundly lacking an intimate love relationship!

And all ye empirical nitwits, I want ye to enjoy at typically Dutch rainy summer! That's what you f*ck*ng need!

Women seem to be predisposed for pre-intentionality, men for post-intentionality. Scientists, computer salesmen, and fish-women, however, cannot overcome mere intentionality.

Whatever you in your moral courage may have to reproach to Berlusconi, he possesses something that you don't: wit.

Our life's flow consists of a PERFECT mixture between choice and fatal determination.

Unknowingly we already determine our future in our past. Our life's space-time, like Einstein's, is curved.

I just DON'T like prosaic people!
The divine in us must be unfrozen. Do you want me to be your microwave or your oven?
Instinct is not to be reviled. It's rather a matter of subtle perception!

‎'Fascism' is a dimension inherent to any view. It may be equivalent to having a viewpoint as such. It's opposite is: structural hesitation.