Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"The almost physiological and destructive significance of that word is striking: to live means to go to excess, to break rules, to go to the very end (of what?), to 'experience sensations.'" – Octavio Paz, "The Labyrinth of Solitude" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Therefore, you should also say that not only do the objects of knowledge owe their being known to the good, but their being is also due to it, although the good is not being, but superior to it in rank and power." – Plato, "The Republic (Book VI)" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"The passion of knowing is questioning." – Martin Heidegger, "Introduction to Metaphysics" 011
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"I can indeed say: My presentations follow one another. [...] Time is not, on that account, something in itself, nor is it a determination attaching to things objectively." – Immanuel Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"He once lit a lamp in daylight and walked around; and when some people asked him why he was doing that, he said that he was searching for a man." – Diogenes the Cynic, "Sayings and Anecdotes" 010
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation." – Søren Kierkegaard, "The Sickness unto Death" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself." – G.W.F. Hegel, "Phenomenology of Spirit" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"The datum is a datum equally for physics and for psychology; it is a meeting point of the two. It is neither mental nor physical [...] but it is part of the raw material of both the mental and the physical worlds." – Bertrand Russell, "An Outline of Philosophy" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Further, all things, as soon as they are perfected, create." – Plotinus, "The Enneads" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"But methinks I hear the philosophers opposing it and saying 'tis a miserable thing for a man to be foolish, to err, mistake, and know nothing truly. Nay rather, this is to be a man." – Erasmus of Rotterdam, "The Praise of Folly" 010
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"You may run through every other thing and it will be clear beyond a shadow of doubt that everything subsists as long as it is one, but perishes when its unity ceases." – Boethius, "The Consolation of Philosophy" 011
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"A person cannot rid himself of the relation to himself any more than he can rid himself of his self, which, after all, is one and the same thing, since the self is the relation to oneself." – Søren Kierkegaard, "The Sickness unto Death" 010
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026In the end, the barbarian draws near, True minds go mad, and all men’s troubles Are but the passing of a solemn tear That we may contemplate our madnesses. 110
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"We have done away with the true world: what world is left over? The apparent one, maybe? . . . But no! Along with the true world, we have also done away with the apparent!" – Friedrich Nietzsche, "Twilight of the Idols" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"To be great is to be misunderstood." – Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" 041
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"For destruction tolerates no exceptions; the will to destroy is totalitarian, and totalitarianism springs from that will alone." – T.W. Adorno, "Dialectic of Enlightenment" 010
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“When the multitude hates a person, you must examine them and judge for yourself. The same holds true for someone whom the multitude love.” – Confucius, "Analects" 052
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"A pleasure greater, truer, and more lasting than any other arises from intelligence." – Pico della Mirandola, "Heptaplus" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"The 'being true' of Logos as Aletheia means: to take beings that are being talked about in discourse as out of their concealment; to let them be seen as something unconcealed; to discover them." – Martin Heidegger, "Being and Time" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"When we read this passage a dozen times and we let ourselves be carried away by the movement of its images, no longer do we see the black man; we see a penis: the black man has been occulted. He has been turned into a penis. He is a penis." – Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks" 001
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Glorioso orbe como el ojo es el sol, Reflector de sus resplandeceres es la luna. Como el manso epitome del hombre en el Globo puesto sobre el ápice de su columna. 100
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits [...] It is nothing jointed; it flows. A ‘river’ or a ‘stream’ are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described [...] let us call it the stream of thought." – William James, "The Principles of Psychology" 010
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "The Social Contract" 010
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"Poetic language, the only language that uses up transcendence and theology to sustain itself; poetic language, knowingly the enemy of religion, by its very economy borders on psychosis and totalitarianism or fascism." – Julia Kristeva, "Desire in Language" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I love you so. The trees perish, Some day the stone will break, Even grass will not pass autumn. But love will last the days. Because true love is as steadfast As death, and warmer than The sun that radiates the earth, And plants that feed us all. 120
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"Mathematics is not more exact than history, but only narrower with regard to the scope of the existential foundations relevant to it." – Martin Heidegger, "Being and Time" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"Therefore the exterior does indeed have significance for us, but not as a manifestation of the interior, but rather as a telegraphic report that there is something hidden deep within." – Søren Kierkegaard, "Either/Or" 010
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation of life, not of death." – Baruch Spinoza, "Ethics" 020
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"I have now to say that there is no general stuff of which experience at large is made. There are as many stuffs as there are ‘natures’ in the things experienced." – William James, "Does Consciousness Exist?" 010
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"The trivial consciousness [...] may be closer than the sublime consciousness to an adaequatio rei [...] its sneering mockery of truth may be truer than a superior consciousness, unless the formation of a truth other than that of adaequatio should succeed." – T.W. Adorno, "Negative Dialectics" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"Art does not deliberate." – Aristotle, "Physics" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 28/08/2026"If the notion of a world ante rem, whether taken abstractly like the word winter, or concretely as the hypothesis of an Absolute, can be shown to have any consequences whatever for our life, it has a meaning." – William James, "Pragmatism" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 28/08/2026"Man’s greatness comes from knowing he is wretched: a tree does not know it is wretched. Thus it is wretched to know that one is wretched, but there is greatness in knowing one is wretched." – Blaise Pascal, "Pensées" 010
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"In choosing myself, I choose man." – Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism" 010
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"The toleration of the systematic moronization of children and adults alike by publicity and propaganda [...] are not distortions and aberrations, but the essence of a system which fosters tolerance as a means for perpetuating the struggle for existence." – Herbert Marcuse, "Repressive Tolerance"" 010
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"The more rational, productive, technical, and total the repressive administration of society becomes, the more unimaginable the means and ways by which the administered individuals might break their servitude and seize their own liberation." – Herbert Marcuse, "One-Dimensional Man" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 23/08/2026"And even if usage is completely different from convention, still you must say that expressing something isn’t a matter of likeness but of usage, since usage, it seems, enables both like and unlike names to express things." – Plato, "Cratylus" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"Once you know the murderer, you don't get any more clues, only what were or would have been clues: nor is a confession, or an eye-witness's view of the crime, a particularly good clue—these are something different altogether." – J.L. Austin, "Other Minds" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"Philosophy is not a synthesis, a basic science, or an overarching science but an effort to resist suggestion, a determination to protect intellectual and actual freedom." – T.W. Adorno, "Dialectic of Enlightenment" 010
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"Whatever is confined within the limits of a natural life cannot by its own efforts go beyond its immediate existence; but it is driven beyond it by something else, and this uprooting entails its death. But consciousness is explicitly the Notion of itself." – G.W.F. Hegel, "Phenomenology of Spirit" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"To return to love, to know perfect love, we surrender the will to power [...] We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts." – bell hooks, "All About Love" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 17/08/2026"This then is evident, that in all proposals of present action, a man is not at liberty to will, or not to will, because he cannot forbear willing: liberty consisting in a power to act, or to forbear acting, and in that only." – John Locke, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 17/08/2026"Since the man of common sense makes his appeal to feeling, to an oracle within his breast, he is finished and done with anyone who does not agree [...] In other words, he tramples underfoot the roots of humanity." – G.W.F. Hegel, "Phenomenology of Spirit" 011
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 17/08/2026"Now suppose that belief in God has vanished: the question presents itself anew: 'who speaks?'— My answer, taken not from metaphysics but from animal physiology: the herd instinct speaks." – Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 17/08/2026"As to the first question; we may observe, that what we call a mind, is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations, and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity." – David Hume, "A Treatise on Human Nature" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"The public, however, is an abstraction [...] to adopt the same opinion as the public is a deceptive consolation, for the public exists only in abstracto." – Søren Kierkegaard, "Two Ages" 010
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"In every case, laughter results from nothing but the suddenly perceived incongruity between a concept & the real objects that had been thought through it in some relation; and laughter itself is just the expression of this incongruity." – Arthur Schopenhauer, "The World as Will and Representation" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 10/08/2026What disaster have seen these eyes, recalled The pious Mnemosyne, as she reclined On a tree. What free spirits have crossed These boundaries made specially aligned 120
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." – David Hume, "A Treatise on Human Nature" 000
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd." – Blaise Pascal, "Pensées" 031
