Socrates. On this account, Hermogenes, let us say, that not one of those there is willing to come hither, not even the Syrens themselves;...

Apud Japonios, in civitate Narad, vel Nara, templum est augustissimum, quod Cobocui nominatur, Xacae sacrum, a cujus latere Bonzii, eorum s...

Frontispiece, Eloge de l'enfer. Ouvrage critique, historique, et moral. A la Haye, Chez Pierre Gosse Junior, Libraire de S. A. R. 17...

Im Traum, & auch lange nach dem Erwachen, können uns Traumworte die höchste Bedeutung zu haben scheinen. Ist nicht die gleiche Illusio...

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Since Nonsense files with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though no particular Species of Nonsense is so durabl...

Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno. Que yo...

Diese Angst in der Welt ist aber der einzige Beweis unserer Heterogenität. This anxiety in the world is, however, the sole proof of our he...

In einem Tag kann man die Schrecken der Hölle erleben; es ist reichlich genug Zeit dazu. In one day you can experience the horrors of hell...

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that in Plato, in spite of his wonderful savour of literary freshness, there is nothing absolutely new:...

Aut lego vel scribo, doceo scrutorve sophian: obsecro celsithronum nocte dieque meum. vescor, poto libens, rithmizans invoco musas, dormi...

'In my day,' said the Sergeant, 'half the scholars in the National Schools were walking around with enough disease in their go...

First of all, nationalism is paranoia—collective and individual paranoia. As a collective paranoia, nationalism is born out of fear and env...

GRUSHENKO: To die . . . before the harvest. The crops, the grains, fields of rippling wheat. Wheat. All there is in life is wheat. . . . O...

Nationalism is the venom of modern history. Nothing is more bestially absurd than the readiness of human beings to incinerate or slaughter ...

Language of Dreams. [...] It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, ...

Nationalism is the venom of our age. It has brought Europe to the edge of ruin. It drives the new states of Asia and Africa like crazed lem...

Bellarmin (1) makes sweating and crowding one of the chief torments of Hell, which Lessius (2) (no doubt after an actual and careful sur...

Ik ben de hazel-noot. - Een bleeke, weeke made bewoont mijn kamer, en die blind is, en die knaagt. Ik ben die van mijn zaad een duisterni...

Preparatory to the great anti-babel of metaphysical Science all sorts of materials psychological and logical must be brought together/some ...

Il existe des âmes écrevisses reculant continuellement vers les ténèbres, rétrogradant dans la vie plutôt qu'elles n'y avancent, em...

No matter how insipid a man might be, he is more terrifying than the most demonic character from Dostoevsky. (...) I would rather travel th...

11. [...] Nam videmus eos qui vagantes, cantantes, cursitantes, vociferantes, balantes, bacchantes, clamitantes, vorantes, potantes, ingurg...

Ships, and their Picturesqueness — / Have I noticed the approximation to Round and Rondure, in the Square and triangular Forms — and that p...

Один из двух мужчин, бывших в комнате, был еще очень молодой человек, лет двадцати пяти, тот самый Обноскин, о котором давеча упоминал дядя...

On peut, à la cour, prendre pied de deux façons: dans les nuées, on est auguste ; dans la boue, on est puissant. Dans le premier cas, on e...

Ne sortons point de notre continent, tant que la terre y est habitable. Les peuples barbares sont venus autrefois du Nord, inonder le Midi ...

Aussi bien, c'est une impression douloureuse, à mesure qu'on va plus loin, de perdre, ville à ville et pays à pays, tout ce bel uni...

 John Dowland (1563-1626), Flow My Tears ( Second Booke of Songes or Ayres , 1600) 5 Hark! you shadows that in darkness dwell, L...

Scars can be literal or metaphorical, physical or psychical. The scar is the memory of the wound, imprinted on the warp and weft of the fle...

[Thracian] Are there many species ( γένη ) of daemons, Marcus, I asked?    “ Many indeed ,” he said, ...

"In each of the hot and secret countries to which that man went he kept a harem, he tortured witnesses, he amassed shameful gold; but ...

The foundation of any national character is human nature. A national character is simply a particular colouring taken on by human nature, a...

[Thracian:] And I asked him whether daemons were endowed with affectivity ( ἐμπαθεῖς ). “Yes, indeed,” he said, “just as some of them even ...

Timotheus: How then, if they are not corporeal (μὴ σῶμα ὄντες), are they visible to our external vision (τοῖς ἐκτὸς ὄμασσιν)?  Thracian...

ᾍδης λέγεται ἡ ἐκ τοῦ ὁρωμένου πρὸς τὸ ἀειδὲς καὶ ἀθέατον κατάστασις τῆς ψχῆς. οὐδὲν γὰρ ἄλλο οἱ παρά τε τῶν ἔξωθεν, καὶ τῆς θέιας γραφῆς σ...

Καθεύδοντα καὶ νεκρὸν, τὸν ἐν ἁμαρτίαις φησί. Καὶ γὰρ δυσωδίας πνεῖ, ὡς  ὁ νεκρὸς, καὶ ἀνενέργητός ἐστιν, ὡς ὁ καθεύδων, καὶ οὐδὲν ὁρᾷ, ὡς ...

Et puis, il y a cette histoire curieuse que rapporte Ségur et qui me paraît vraie : « En 1787, dans une auberge près de Moulins, un vie...

Vivre dans le monde comme dans un immense musée d'étrangeté, plein de jouets curieux, bariolés, qui changent d'aspect, que quelque-...

Of the ferryman across the "Waters of Death" there is no trace in the Old Testament. Spirits are supposed rather to "fly awa...