Angels , who do not propagate, nor multiply, were made at first in an abundant number; and so were starres: But for the things of this world...

What might be termed metaphysical detritus: the subtle excremental matter voided by the demons that throng the lower aerial sublunary region...

The Universe is a labyrinth made of labyrinths. Each leads to another. And wherever we cannot go ourselves, we reach with mathematics. Out o...

Hanenpoot (1807) is an eight-page picture booklet consisting of pen and ink drawings captioned with rhyming couplets, mostly four to a page...

Ὡς γὰρ οἱ ἐν νοσήμασι χρονίοις πρὸς τὰ κοινὰ βοηθήματα καὶ τὰς συνήθεις διαίτας ἀπειπόντες ἐπὶ καθαρμοὺς καὶ περίαπτα κ...

Weil vom Wohllaut deiner Lieder  Selbst das Totenreich erbebte,  Kam's, daß die Geliebte wieder  In den lichten Äther schwebte.   Hättes...

Hell? but whence came the descriptions of its Torments? From the imagination? But who having experienced what can be suffered in distempered...

Bucharest  

Wagner's operas tend towards magic delusion, to what Schopenhauer calls 'The outside of the worthless commodity', in short towar...

At that time I was a great Wagnerian. I never lost an opportunity to hear Wagner's music either in the theatre or at concerts. Today I h...

If the world lasts another thousand years and as many books are written as today, then I think entire library-cities will come into being; b...

Die Bibliotheken werden endlich Städte werden, sagt Leibniz. [C 212] Wenn, was Leibniz geweissagt hat, dereinst die Bibliotheken Städte werd...

Nothing is more pleasant to the fancy, than to enlarge itself, by degrees, in its contemplation of the various proportions which its several...

Qu’il soit fondé sur un fait ou librement inventé, de toute façon ce n’est pas le sujet qui fait le roman, à plus forte r...

When you get to the end of this book [ The Third Policeman ] you realise that my hero or main character (he's a heel and a killer) has b...

Quare ex particulis hic mundus constat, ac ille
 Ex totis, vivis per se, distantibus a se,
 Singula nonnulli credunt quoque sidera posse
 Di...

I wish you to write a book on the power of words, and the processes by which human feelings form affinities with them—in short, I wish you t...

Nicolas Poussin, Le Triomphe de Cthulu (1633) Mercredi 10 juillet [1957] Bref nous vivons au milieu de crétins, en plein crétinisme, chez...

Ich brauche zu meinem Schreiben Abgeschiedenheit, nicht „wie ein Einsiedler“, das wäre nicht genug, sondern wie ein Toter...

Now I propose to note down the characteristics of Dreams, especially my infernal Dreams, as they occur to me—as so many parts of the Problem...

Habitually to dream magnificently, a man must have a constitutional determination to reverie. This in the first place; and even this, where ...

Scientiæ suntne inutiles?   R. Ita probatur. I. Rhetorica est ars mentiendi, ex albo facit nigrum, hominem candidæ vitæ atramento & meri...

26 April 1826. Wednesday Night. This Morning a little before three suffered one of my most grievous and alarming <Scream->Dreams—and o...

Quænam in mundo admiranda?   Resp. Quod omnes cornices sint nigræ; quod ratti æque cito currant ac mures; quod canes ossa arrodant et duglut...

La poésie, dans sa grande fonction, nous redonne les situations du songe. La maison natale est plus qu'un corps de logis, elle est un co...

Quis nasus est optimus? R. Magnus. Vide catalogum Imperatorum Romanorum, omnes fuerunt nasuti. Numa secundus rex Romanorum sesquipedalem nas...

 —then the fantastic puppet-old-man that threw himself in my way and under my feet where ever I went—my intreatng some one to take him away—...