By Schopenhauer’s definition every disabled person is a genius, because of altered perception, what’s more his ethics is premised on compassion. Unless you define a genius as un-classable, but even he defines the genius as a peculiar kind of disabled person, disabled for practical purposes.

From "The Absence of Pain". a. Repentance is rewarded like everything childlike, with all the hyper-contingency of caprice, because it is spontaneous, because it is disinterested, and beyond the dignity of the person: its sine qua non is its own dissolution as finality.

There is apparently a contradiction between careful and thoughtful vs. trusting and caring.

From an essay, "The Absence of Pain" a. In reality, resignation and acceptance are not the same as understanding. Suddenly I am arrested: I perceived the signs in the past, but I refused to believe them. The charge makes no sense to me; I don't believe it, much less understand it.

1915 Uemura Tsune, 'Shōen' - Flower Basket, ukiyo-e, 127x208cm.

1893 Mary Cassatt - The Child's Bath, oil on canvas, 100x66cm.

1951 David Alfaro Siqueiros - El martirio de Cuauhtémoc, mural, 453x841cm.

1882 John William Waterhouse - Diogenes, oil on canvas, 249x177cm.

2013 Hsin-Yao Tseng - Russian Hill in Blue, oil on wood, 30x30cm.

1617 Giovanni Barbieri (Guercino) - Susanna and the Elders, oil on canvas, 176x208cm.

1859 Utagawa Hiroshige - Lantern at Thunder Gate, ukiyo-e, 39x27cm.

1919 Gwen John - The Convalescent, oil on canvas, 41x34cm.

1975 Zdzisław Beksiński - Untitled, acrylic on beaverboard, 87x93cm.

1770 Joshua Reynolds - The Archers, oil on canvas, 239x184cm.

1966 Andy Warhol - Banana, screenprint in colors with collage on paper, 94x45cm.

1446 Petrus Christus - Portrait of a Carthusian Lay Brother, oil on wood, 30x19cm.

1571 Paolo Caliari (Veronese) - The Battle of Lepanto, oil on canvas, 169x137cm.

1990 Bridget Riley - Shadow Play, oil on canvas, 97x69cm.

"Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden. Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline"

"’Tis an establish’d maxim in metaphysics, that whatever the mind clearly conceives includes the idea of possible existence, or in other words, that nothing we imagine is absolutely impossible." – David Hume, "A Treatise of Human Nature"

"It was narrated from Tariq bin Shihab that a man asked the Prophet (pbuh) when he had put his leg in the stirrup: 'Which kind of Jihad is best?' He said: 'A word of truth spoken before an unjust ruler.'" – Sunan An-Nasai, Vol. 5

"...as is necessary whenever a birth is in the offing, only under the species of the nonspecies, in the formless, mute, infant, and terrifying form of monstrosity." – Jacques Derrida, "Structure, Sign and Play"

"Thus, in a given society, the authority of man over man is inversely proportional to the stage of intellectual development which that society has reached [...] As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy." – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, "What is Property?"

"The path charted between the two poles of dialogue radically abolishes problems of causality, finality, et cetera, from our philosophical arena. It suggests the importance of the dialogical principle for aspace of thought much larger than that of the novel." – Julia Kristeva, "Desire in Language"

"What becomes disputable here is not the cause but the tone. For you are still left with a sufficient basis to speak the language—justified before the keenest reason—of a firm faith, even though you have had to give up the language of knowledge." – Immanuel Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason"

"'Will my repentance be accepted, or not?' The Prophet said, 'Yes.' [...] Till a man is thoroughly convinced of the fact that he is always under God's observation it is impossible for him to act rightly." – Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, "The Alchemy of Happiness"

"Communism is oppression and slavery [...] Any plan which could be devised for reconciling it with the demands of the individual reason and will would end only in changing the thing while preserving the name." – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, "What is Property?"

"To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past—which is to say, only for a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments. Each moment it has lived becomes a citation a l'ordre du jour—and that day is Judgment Day." – Walter Benjamin, "Theses on History"

"The fault of such beings is not in the heart — it is in the judgment... Love, benevolence, pity, sympathy, call it what you will, there is nothing in it which deserves esteem, — nothing which lifts man above the beast." – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, "What is Property?"

"Scholars study what they like and what interests them; only an exaggerated sense of cultural duty drives a scholar to the study of what he does not think well of. Yet it is just such a sense of duty Orientalism has fostered." – Edward Said, "Orientalism"

Hay valores mas grandes que el dinero Tomás había dicho. En la jerga madrileña, los gitanos Asedian con sus tiendas. ¿Habrá un pobre dadivoso noble de Conmiserado corazón? ¿Una mujer que infante para darle Con mosqueta al partizón?

To try to calm the blurry image That leads from your eyes To mine Then back again, Infinitely, Is a tiger’s paw Against a window Trying not to break it. Though it feels like A petal in the rain Brought back to its flower Again.

Una palabra de ti siempre es impreciable. Repican como joyas, resaltan como perlas, En granos escondidas, en arena mirando Presto desde ventosos rincones, como niñas. Sólo ladra un perro, pervertido animal, Carezco de un alma, como lo dijo Descartes. Al final estoy muerto, yo ya no puedo llorar.

At a distance, man, did I admire thee, In that sense filled not with reverence. But Fear, in my apeish way agape, stern put Me forth to first gather scattered lightnings.

Una vez viví Por el dicho de Gines De Pasamonte. “Toda afectación es mala”. Y aprendí después, Que es una afectación también.

Wouldn't it be an Occasion for tears if it All already Had been said, before, Even before any of us Can have had said it? Wouldn't it be an Occasion for laughter if you left forever?

Ten seguro, sin ti, Tomo el rumbo gélido Del desnivel resbaladizo, Deslizando a la avalancha Que ha aplastado nuestras almas— Sin dejar cadáver Para saber ni rescatar Lo que una vez vivimos.

We thought we were well-rested in our peace, But decades of accumulated sin Disturbed, to break the Earth from underneath. Just like angels, dancing on a pin, grin

Eres como la lengua de llama que me llama A hacer cosas, que nunca hubieran sucedido Ni antes, ni después— Me ahogue— Sin haberte visto. Y después, perdí todos mis sentidos.

I pine away like the morning does. Black sandals fitted upon a beach.

Dime por cuanto augustos cabrones Podrán alcanzar gatescos corazones Con cuerdas fibrosas melenas mal hechas Tomadas de la guardería misera  En donde esconden sus fabricaciones Inventando redes de pescar para hablar A través de alguien mas como titiriteo.

I am sorry but all your lore Can’t heal my broken soul. My soul, that darkness show has torn. Crowd, maw, mob, spectacle. Open the borders of your mind, We can skip geography. Whatever darling dear you’ll find Can’t bear the pulse, or stir,

El maximato estaba mal, Dejo un legado y es brutal. Los maestros a espiar, Las clases por sus diferencias. Pero cuando sueño con la cinta De Julio Bracho al estrenar, Pienso si no fue de esperar Que Ordaz con la CIA se divulgara.

This bitter afternoon, could only be, my perfect prince, Too true, upon the aft of ships with which you drew The skies that mate with dry longing Earth birthing Horizon who would live to tell the all of it

"But they are especially credited with the worship of the god Quetzalcoatl, peace-loving and sole deity, who condemned human sacrifice and attracted his followers to a life of moral perfection." – Miguel León-Portilla, "Los antiguos mexicanos a través de sus crónicas y cantares"

"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising... All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind." – Karl Marx, "Manifesto of the Communist Party"

"Consequently we can say that in our culture, the name of an author is a variable that accompanies only certain texts to the exclusion of others... and, similarly, an anonymous poster attached to a wall may have a writer, but he cannot be an author." – Michel Foucault, "What is an Author?"

"Sceptre and power, thy giving, I assume, And gladlier shall resign, when in the end Thou shalt be all in all, and I in thee Forever, and in me all whom thou lov’st: But whom thou hat’st, I hate, and can put on Thy terrors, as I put thy mildness on..." – John Milton, "Paradise Lost"

"The closer we come to the danger, the more brightly do the ways into the saving power begin to shine and the more questioning we become. For questioning is the mercy of thought." – Martin Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology"

"The highest heroism for an individual, as for a people, is knowing how to face ridicule; it is, even better, knowing how to make oneself ridiculous and not to cower from it." – Miguel de Unamuno, "On the Tragic Sense of Life"