The First Elegy BY RAINER MARIA RILKE Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’ hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart:I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence.For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure,and we […]
Diogenes (aprox. 412-323 BC), aka Diogenes the Cynic, or kynikos / dog (σκύλος), was by far the truest and most radical pre-Christian Greek philosopher, regarded as a pioneer of the Cynic Philosophy – a Zen-like non-School of anti-Philosophy expounding and embracing an ascetic and transcendental nihilism. Imagine The legend goes on with Diogenes walking the […]