Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Why am I exactly this and not that being? at this point of unlimited space and in this moment of infinite time? in this group of beings, on this planet? Why do I exist if I could have been without existence?
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There must be repressed truth even in lies.
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There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.
-- Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
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The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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I always knew I was going to die in space.
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Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.
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Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
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You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.
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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
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