April 22: It's the birthday of Kant, Lenin, and Nabokov. They'll rise from a dogmatic slumber, give all power to the Soviets, and admire a butterfly.

Every human being must acquire a taste for his own peculiarity. –Franz Kafka

Schopenhauer: The will to life Nietzsche: The will to power Heidegger: The will to will Wittgenstein: What will it take for all of you to shut up?

It's Søren Kierkegaard's birthday, so you have no excuse not to taste the rainbow.

Yes, I have only one language, and it is not mine. —Jacques Derrida

"Our salvation is death, but not this one." Franz Kafka (who died 100 years ago today)

No one puts flowers on a flower’s grave. —Tom Waits

Leibniz discovered calculus by accident, while trying to prove to a friend that his birthday was on July 1st.

Kafka draws himself and his mother.

The Tractatus consists of two parts: the one presented here plus all that I have not written. And it is precisely this second part that is the important one. –Wittgenstein

Samuel Beckett explaining to the actor cast as Godot that he doesn't actually make an appearance on stage. #WaitingForGodot

We are bored when we don't know what we are waiting for. That we do know, or think we know, is nearly always the expression of our superficiality or inattention. Boredom is the threshold to great deeds. –Walter Benjamin

Twitter 2008: The meme is the message Twitter 2012: The message is the meme Twitter 2016: There is no message Twitter 2020: There is no meme Twitter 2024: There is no Twitter

My ontology: Greek My semiotics: French My decision to celebrate Hegel's birthday with an Owl of Minerva latte: decidedly American

Well what did you think was in the box?

Representing for the team.

Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited. –Samuel Beckett

Marx’s Capital, the film version, by Wes Anderson.

For fans of the exercise like myself, this from Jan Mieszkowski & brilliant collaborators Cabinet Magazine cabinetmagazine.org/books/the_virt…