Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe.
She said, You’re a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?In compassion. Because of necessity. Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar’s hands. The same way you carry water.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straight out. Very well. He has done it. Perhaps he can ride. But there is a way of looking at a halter that would provoke the most charitable of saints into a kick.
Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth.
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it.
One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her — is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions.
… the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World – and all, in time, will flow back.
I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.
But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them on different shelves; nothing more being final about their positions than that they no longer lie side by side. The onlooker who doesn’t know the difficulty of the task might well think in such a case that nothing at all had been achieved.
…if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
It must not be forgotten that reason too needs to be sustained in all its searching by trusting dialogue and sincere friendship. A climate of suspicion and distrust, which can beset speculative research, ignores the teaching of the ancient philosophers who proposed friendship as one of the most appropriate contexts for sound philosophical enquiry.
If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how thespirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
I only seem negative to the fortunate. That’s because I show the less fortunate that they aren’t less fortunate after all.
So many other planets & stars — could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?
I prefer for ‘my world’ to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.
In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.
After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 – 2005), who in his book ‘Relativity and Common Sense’ says:… The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.
Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.
The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.
Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.
Mendel had a remarkable nature as a boy. I’m not talking about miracles. Miracles are a burden for a tzaddik, not the proof of one. Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir. There was something in Mendele. There was a fire.
That’s the thing about love It can take you up to the mountaintop and can drop you And the impact will either kill you or make you a new person
As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one’s clinging to God in fear of God.
Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything.
#quote In the harshest conditions is when we know better the people around us. En las condiciones más duras es cuando conocemos mejor a las personas que nos rodean.
In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.
Not all of Derrida’s writing is to everyone’s taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: ‘What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this I who speaks of speaking?
Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all.
In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works.
The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.
Learn from your past, use the possibilities of the present moment, and let the future open the doors of opportunity.
Doors of opportunity are always open around you—you just have to find them.
If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.
Is it possible that power can conquer matter, that the soul makes a mightier truth than the body, that life has a meaning that survives life itself, that good survives evil as life survives death, that God, after all, is more powerful than the Devil?
The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things can be constructed which will enable us to know how to use them mechanically. Physics, as I have said on another occasion, is the technique of techniques and the ars combinatoria for fabricating machines. It is a knowledge which has scarcely anything to do with comprehension.
If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.
Y, entonces, en ese instante que tan solo dura un segundo, el cerebro se encarga de abrir la cerradura del cofre en el cual guardas todo lo que aprecias. Cede de tal manera que la tapa se abre y todo lo que hay en el interior sale de forma tan rápida y tan fugaz que no puedes detenerlo.
Let the love of the moon kiss you good night, let the morning sun wake you up with loving light.
It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.
Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.
For once,engulf,not air,but hope.For once,breathe on,a firm belief!
Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say I think, I am, but quotes some saint or safe.
Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.
Abundance is not the absence of scarcity; it is the presence of abundant mentality.
…the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.
Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.