Mind Palace of Ivalo

Sarcasm is my middle name.
Please be kind.
Learning to be a writer, a detective, a philosopher, a reader, an architect, an physicist, someone who understands everyone.

"Let other complain that the age is wicked; my complaint is that it is paltry; for it lacks passion. Men's thoughts are thin and flimsy like lace, they are themselves pitiable like the lacemakers. The thoughts of their hearts are too paltry to be sinful. For a worm it might be regarded as a sin to harbor such thoughts, but not for a being made in the image of God. Their lusts are dull and sluggish, their passions sleepy...This is the reason my soul always turns back to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. I feel that those who speak there are at least human beings: they hate, they love, they murder their enemies, and curse their descendants throughout all generations, they sin". - Either/Or - Kierkegaard


"Jewel and Vernon are in the river again. From here they do not appear to violate the surface at all; it is as though it had severed them both at a single blow, the two torsos moving with infinitesimal and ludicrous care upon the surface. It looks peaceful, like machinery does after you have watched it and listened to it for a long time. As though the clotting which is you had dissolved into the myriad original motion, and seeing and hearing in themselves blind and deaf; fury in itself quiet with stagnation. Squatting, Dewey Dell’s wet dress shapes for the dead eyes of three blind men those mammalian ludicrosities which are the horizons and the valleys of the earth."
- As I Lay Dying , Faulkner


"The absolute method of the science of logic is therefore, in general terms, the exposition of God as he is in his eternal essence before the creation of nature and a finite mind, and, at the same time, it is nothing other than the true theodicy - the justification of God's ways with the world - because it presents the necessity and absolute rationality of the world in its necessity and rationally comprehensible determinations, and in such a way that the necessary laws of thought and being are at the same time the necessary laws of existence of all that is and happens, the necessary laws of the eternal and the temporal, of nature, of history and of spirit." - Hegel's simplest line


"Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves. Then we would like to thank the beloved, but find nothing that would do it adequately. We can only be thankful to ourselves. Love transforms gratitude into faithfulness to ourselves and into an unconditional faith in the Other. Thus love steadily expands its most intimate secret." - Heidegger on love


"Who reads
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not
A spirit and judgment equal or superior
Uncertain and unsettled still remains,
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself."


"Mankind, instead of being the central figure on the stage of reality,
the rational creature for whom the non-rational world exists, is actually an accident,
a late and adventitious newcomer whose life is governed by contingency;
and the proof, paradoxically, comes from rationalism itself, from the Darwinian idea of evolution.
Whatever may be the case with trees and stones and stars, man the thinker is a by-product, a nonessential component of reality, and he and all his works cling to existence with a hold that is tenuous and feeble."
— Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre.


"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence."
- Sherlock Holmes, A.C. Doyle.


"Let foolish little human souls
Delude themselves that they are wholes.
I am part of that part which once, when all began,
Was all there was; part of the Darkness before man
Whence light was born, proud light, which now makes futile war
To wrest from Night, its mother, what before
Was hers, her ancient place and space. For light depends
On the corporeal worlds—matter that sends
Visible light out, stops light in its stride
And by reflected light is beautified.
So, light will not last long, I fear;
Matter shall be destroyed, and light shall disappear."
- Faust: Part One; Goethe


"A doubt if it be Us-
Assists the staggering Mind
In an extremer Anguish-
Until it footing find.

An Unreality is lent,
A merciful Mirage-
That makes the living possible-
While it suspends the lives."
- A doubt if it be Us, by Emily Dickinson


"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall."
- Mike Teavee's Poem (from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Roald Dahl

Source - Buttercup Festival by David Troupes.