Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 15/10/2026All mysticism, and the wind seldom Shrieks in agony, except when It hasn’t got any work to do or Anything better to while away the Time. Erosion only adds character To this dust-ball. Its fiery center churns. 000 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Having been psychotic myself and been Without the help of Nietzsche to control My emotions. Who does not bridle his tongue His religion is vain, is the law of 100 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Only in my life, can the humorless Horror of haunting reality twice call And I stand to perceive the world around Me, as a dull self-righteous blow-hard, 100 0
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 0
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 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"The passion of knowing is questioning." – Martin Heidegger, "Introduction to Metaphysics" 011 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-12...youtube.comDoja Cat - Stranger (Official Video)YouTube video by dojacatVEVO 010 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Further, all things, as soon as they are perfected, create." – Plotinus, "The Enneads" 000 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We may soon see clear, and walk straight in fear And trembling which will not leave our inner State nor deceive our minds, nor anger Timid lips to speak what isn’t fit to hear. What restless marches full of sleep await Until the day the last hour may draw near! 010 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Steer clear of or brace the gale of fortune That eventually draws ire, raw and wicked Devastation and dire straits from which turn There’s no escape! But come early, fated, 110 0
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 0
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 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"To be great is to be misunderstood." – Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" 041 0
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 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Whatever happened to "an eye for an eye" and "he who is without sin throweth"? B. What do you think? 000 0
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 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Whatever your rules are they would have to possibilitate the highest amount of behavior, or its moral posturing and slavery. 000 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Because it's harder still to try and not to regulate behavior. It's better authentic than correct, and those too weak for authenticity may be the hope of the world, per the I Ching, but because of their clemency. Through it the guilty go free, says the Dao De Ching, that's why it's celebrated. 100 0
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 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Perhaps an important question is not if artificial intelligence will be like man, but what kind of man. That today even the bad behavior has to be done by artificial intelligence is telling. It is telling us that it is we who are artificial 101 0
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 0
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 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 07/09/2026De un trago de licor, por ambiguas rosas que Se difuminan en hartazgo con ardor, con olor A jabón, porque son los residuos de un endeble Ensimismado pobre pasajero sin amor. Quien se quedó ciego como viejo Polifémo; Por mirar al sol busca la ninfa Galatea. 000 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Las hondas verdades hay que contarlas mil veces Porque no son superficiales, siempre se olvidan. Porque no importan—porque nuestras convenciones, Puestas en la mano, ya están convencidas. 100 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 03/09/2026As glue. For our relationship May testify that all Things pass but love won't come to nought Or end askew, nor us. 020 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I love you so, the wind won't blow Evil words upon the morrow's Short, and sweet, sudden sparrow’s song, With force visible yet odd. I love you so, that true love will Always be consoled. And If you'll love me so, I will Divine the words that serve 120 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"Art does not deliberate." – Aristotle, "Physics" 000 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 30/08/2026And it would be a shame if you got into the habit of censoring yourself 100 0
Diáfano Sadaq @martinmier.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"Art does not deliberate" said Aristotle (Physics II) 100 0
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 0
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 0
