amos hough
@willamos.bsky.social
phenomenologist. left-conservative. christian anarchist. localist. degrowth neo-luddite.
Ira J. Allen, 'Panic Now?: Tools for Humanizing"
December 4, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Ira J. Allen, 'Panic Now?: Tools for Humanizing"
“The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.”
- wallace stevens
- wallace stevens
November 27, 2024 at 2:14 AM
“The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.”
- wallace stevens
- wallace stevens
charles taylor, - 'Cosmic Connections'
November 26, 2024 at 8:56 PM
charles taylor, - 'Cosmic Connections'
“Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.”
- william faulkner
- william faulkner
November 21, 2024 at 2:57 PM
“Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.”
- william faulkner
- william faulkner
-hanna arendt, 'Home to Roost' (1976)
November 19, 2024 at 4:20 PM
-hanna arendt, 'Home to Roost' (1976)
'Vision is the end of religion.'
- william blake
- william blake
November 6, 2024 at 5:17 AM
'Vision is the end of religion.'
- william blake
- william blake
“I knew this, anyway: that my wish, indeed my continuing passion, would be not to point the finger in judgment but to part a curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the veil of indifference to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.”
- eudora welty
- eudora welty
April 6, 2024 at 12:03 AM
“I knew this, anyway: that my wish, indeed my continuing passion, would be not to point the finger in judgment but to part a curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the veil of indifference to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.”
- eudora welty
- eudora welty
'If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.'
- ezra pound
- ezra pound
March 29, 2024 at 12:25 PM
'If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.'
- ezra pound
- ezra pound
guy davenport, 'The Geography of Imagination'
March 27, 2024 at 11:51 PM
guy davenport, 'The Geography of Imagination'
“We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.”
- ivan illich
- ivan illich
March 27, 2024 at 11:48 PM
“We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.”
- ivan illich
- ivan illich
guy davenport, 'The Geography of the Imagination'
March 13, 2024 at 5:51 PM
guy davenport, 'The Geography of the Imagination'
"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of the human soul. It is one of the hardest to define....
March 5, 2024 at 8:16 PM
"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of the human soul. It is one of the hardest to define....
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.” - soren kierkegaard
March 1, 2024 at 1:09 AM
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.” - soren kierkegaard
“We don’t need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.”
- robert walser
- robert walser
February 9, 2024 at 3:10 AM
“We don’t need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.”
- robert walser
- robert walser
“I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For my dwelling place is as much among the dead as the yet unborn. Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough.”
- Paul Klee
- Paul Klee
February 8, 2024 at 1:45 AM
“I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For my dwelling place is as much among the dead as the yet unborn. Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough.”
- Paul Klee
- Paul Klee
'It would be a tragedy to spend your whole life desperately wanting to be something that you already were, all along.'
January 9, 2024 at 3:42 AM
'It would be a tragedy to spend your whole life desperately wanting to be something that you already were, all along.'
'I've never heard of any community that failed because it lacked material resources. Communities fail because they lack imagination and spiritual contact and soul and a sense of others and staying power and courage to move together and to live together.'
- father daniel berrigan
- father daniel berrigan
January 8, 2024 at 8:01 PM
'I've never heard of any community that failed because it lacked material resources. Communities fail because they lack imagination and spiritual contact and soul and a sense of others and staying power and courage to move together and to live together.'
- father daniel berrigan
- father daniel berrigan
“Kindness, kindness, kindness.
I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.”
- susan sontag
I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.”
- susan sontag
January 1, 2024 at 11:08 PM
“Kindness, kindness, kindness.
I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.”
- susan sontag
I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.”
- susan sontag
“Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
― Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
December 21, 2023 at 8:17 PM
“Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
― Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
things go poorly when i try to be
someone i'm not.
someone i'm not.
December 1, 2023 at 4:52 AM
things go poorly when i try to be
someone i'm not.
someone i'm not.