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Anyone who chatters is a deceiver (...)

Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten (t. Christopher Middleton)

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jiro takamatsu, shadow, 1989/97

acrylic on canvas

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robert bresson, notes on cinematography

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He who has been instructed thus far in the things of love, and who has learned to see the beautiful in due order and succession, when he comes toward the end will suddenly perceive a nature of wondrous beauty (and this, Socrates, is the final cause of all our former toils)—a nature which in the first place is everlasting, not growing and decaying, or waxing and waning; secondly, not fair in one point of view and foul in another, or at one time or in one relation or at one place fair, at another time or in another relation or at another place foul, as if fair to some and foul to others, or in the likeness of a face or hands or any other part of the bodily frame, or in any form of speech or knowledge, or existing in any other being, as for example, in an animal, or in heaven, or in earth, or in any other place; but beauty absolute, separate, simple, and everlasting, which without diminution and without increase, or any change, is imparted to the ever-growing and perishing beauties of all other things.

Plato, Symposium (t. Benjamin Jowett)

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Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundation of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros, fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them.

Hesiod, Theogony (t. H. G. Evelyn-White)

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By its rational structure and its public function in bringing men into a community, language becomes a symbol for the unifying structure of the world which wisdom apprehends.

Charles H. Kahn, The Art and Thought of Heraclitus

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“Laughter ceased, and after laughter smiles.” This apparently naive remark by a biographer of Alexander Blok defines to perfection the program of any and every downfall.

E. M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

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John Cage. Solo for Piano (page 18), 1958

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Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Centenary Edition, transl by David Pears and B. V. McGuinness, (2021)

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Mel Bochner. Counting Exercise- Circles, 1972

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A fool loves to get excited on any account.

Heraclitus, Fragments (tr. Charles H. Kahn)