I’ve quoted from it before, but it’s always worthy.
Life is living: you cannot describe it to someone who does not know it. It is friendship and enmity, enthusiasm and disenchantment, peristalsis and ideology. Thinking has, among other functions, to establish an intellectual order in life. As well as to destroy that order. Every concept combines many disparate phenomena in life, and just as frequently, a single phenomenon will give rise to many new concepts. It is common knowledge that our poets have stopped wanting to think ever since they think they heard the philosophers say that thought is no longer supposed to be a matter of thinking, but rather of living.
Life is to blame for everything.
Black Magic (tr. Peter Wortsman)
17 October 2009 at 11:35
this is a wonderful link, there is my favourite library chapter 100 too. is anyone agreeing with me that General Stumm von Bordwehr is the actual hero of the book? :)