In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato’s belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we’re making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we’re hold out for.)
Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.
It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved… [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical.
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
We kill, kill, kill. Flesh, spirit, whatever gets in our way. It’s like our whole purpose is to extinguish life. And for those who live, there’s memory, like a curse. We’re such a mixture of frailty and cruelty.
My philosophy is: If you can’t have fun, there’s no sense in doing it.
I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God’s enemy.
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.
Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.
We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but a few billions of which will never burst into consciousness.
And as their penile pain began to subside, the two men were able to form more complex thoughts, resulting in a collaborative work: the development of a worldview that might be described as “penilosophy.
…the only way to judge a philosophy is to examine the lives of those who live it.
Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. – Without haste, but without rest.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.
Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing concentric circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.
Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.
Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God’s grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?
Don’t dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!
The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It’s not like they’re tearing off my shirt, you know.
Flow is the best of what happens when potential is activated by consciousness.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
Lifes like a painters palette, just when you’ve got everything worked out the colours change
Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial—notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.
The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
Some way some how i’m going to be happy i’m going to laugh i’m going to prosper,i feel good that i remain positive thru these mess up times!!!
To theology, … only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need.
I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of goo.
Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion – it is still guessing.
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet’s father’s ghost and what stays is dry bones.
I’m not frightened. I’m not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.
When we can weave a profound understanding of human emotions with a matrix of philosophy and a touch of poetry, we can create a captivating life canvas for reflection on Love, Happiness, and Insight. (“Love and Happiness and Insight”)
By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
You’re hungry, you see food, and you get excited. You never question where did the hunger come from. You didn’t sign up for this endless cycle of hunger and food, problem and solution, question and answer. You’re the eternity.
Rudeness instantly establishes a set of norms, a set of regulatory orders, authority, and power. To be rude is to go against an established accepted concept or ordered regulation. Thus rudeness could be in kind, a deviation from the norm. Rudeness can also be in kind an instantiation outside a set foundation. A deviation from a norm holds the same set foundation as the norm, their disagreement merely a manner of degrees.
One of my big philosophies is that fighting is the sport that crosses all borders. I don’t care what color you are, what country you come from or what language you speak, fighting is in our DNA. We get it and we like it.
When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: Don’t think, don’t politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!
Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.
It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.
I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn’t know anything for a long time
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.
That which men call virtue is usually no more than a phantom formed by our passions, to which one gives an honest name in order to do with impunity whatever one wishes.