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for me it's cosima diaries

>In the evening we play cards, and when we think of what Schopenhauer thought about that, R. says, “There is a difference between resorting to cards out of inner emptiness and boredom, which Sch. was referring to, and playing in order to distract oneself from too much mental activity.” He follows the whist with a game of lansquenet, then recalls how passionately he used to play cards in his youth.
gaming lindy

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>because they do nothing but ... end a displeasure.

>Actually, one can only visualize the Will as negative, resisting things it does not desire. That is awful! And so it was a great stroke of genius on Goethe’s part to depict Mephisto just as the spirit of negation.
t. wagner

>computer: generate bayreuth, wahnfried villa ca 1879, deactivate all safety protocols.

>...what barbarians we are! It was only the ancient world which brought forth truly great men; in comparison, all that is really effective is Christ and the Sermon on the Mount, the denial of the world; in the acceptance of the world only the Greeks are great. Astonishment at the long life span of the Greek spirit: 600 years later Plutarch still speaking as if he were living at the same time 'as Socrates —and how do we regard Wolfram von Eschenbach?

>mh, splendid observation, Richard.

>computer: generate bayreuth, wahnfried villa ca 1879, deactivate all safety protocols.

>...what barbarians we are! It was only the ancient world which brought forth truly great men; in comparison, all that is really effective is Christ and the Sermon on the Mount, the denial of the world; in the acceptance of the world only the Greeks are great.” Astonishment at the long life span of the Greek spirit: 600 years later Plutarch still speaking as if he were living at the same time 'as Socrates —and how do we regard Wolfram von Eschenbach?

>mh, splendid observation, Richard.