"Processes near and far in space and time all unfold in the same direction. All animals, us humans included, get older in the same direction. We never meet anyone getting younger.” Julian Barbour (The Janus Point) “Could there be a more uncomfortable position intellectually than that of floating in the thin air of unproved possibilities, not knowing whether what one sees is truth or illusion? This is the dream-like atmosphere of the I Ching.” Carl Jung (Introduction to The I Ching or Book of Changes) "To say “it exists” is to reify. To say “it does not exist” is to adopt the view of nihilism. Therefore a wise person Does not subscribe to “it exists” or “it does not … [Read more...]
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Below Replacement
August 7, 2025 by 6 Comments
"Even the sympathetic curiosity of the wisest discerner of men does not suffice to divine how this or that woman gets along with the solution of this enigma and the enigma of this solution; what dreadful, far-reaching suspicions must awaken thereby in the poor unhinged soul; and forsooth, how the ultimate philosophy and scepticism of the woman casts anchor at this point! Afterwards the same profound silence as before: and often even a silence to herself, a shutting of her eyes to herself. Young wives on that account make great efforts to appear superficial and thoughtless; the most ingenious of them simulate a kind of impudence. Wives easily feel their husbands as a question-mark to their … [Read more...]
