Not bad, not bad at all, Diotallevi said. To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on the mind which is at the beginning of life a blank.
Man, you see, swings between nihilism and spirituality. Man, you see, swings between utmost bliss and the feelings of utter despair. It’s a rollercoaster, our lives. One can’t just go higher, higher all the time.
According to the Buddha’s teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him ‘What is the beginning of God?’ he would answer without hesitation ‘God has no beginning’, and he is not astonished at his own reply.
If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.
Networking isn’t how many people you know, it’s how many people know you.
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.
For any reporter, education is a topic where everything else – money, politics, et cetera – intersects. I have four kids in K through 12, so I’m knee-deep in it. I’m really interested in the philosophy behind it all. Should you just memorize your multiplication tables, or should you understand the concept behind them?
The value of ‘Made in Italy’ must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that’s always been my philosophy.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Life is like yoga; the only way you can enjoy it is by relaxing into any position you happen to find yourself in.
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
When you’ve had one call after another and your little one is tugging on your shirt, remember what really matters. When the milk is splattered all over the floor and those little eyes are looking at you for your reaction, remember what really matters. It takes 5 minutes to clean up spilled milk; it takes much longer to clean up a broken spirit.
Some day people will ask me what is the key to my success…and I will simply say, good Karma.
It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.
My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting ‘look at this.’ It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.
My philosophy is my learning process. Until you die, you must evolve and improve.
A tremendous mystery unfolds in front of our senses every waking hour of our lives; a mystery more profound, more tantalizing, more penetrating and urgent than any novel or thriller. This unfolding mystery is nature’s challenge to us. Are we paying enough attention to it?
The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what’s in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
Because this is another thing your average American man in crisis does: he tries to go home, forgetting, momentarily, that he is the reason he left home in the first place, that the home is not his anymore, and that the crisis is him.
Man is the measure of all things’, said the Sophist Protagora (c. 485-410 B.C.). By that he meant that the question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a person’s needs.
What is the world of the spirits? It is nothing I know about. I don’t know what spirit is.Spirit is what matter does.
All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
A beautiful idea can give you immortality—not success or money.
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again ‘I know that that’s a tree’, pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: ‘This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but i laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
Where do one’s fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?
There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.
My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it’s not really forgiveness. It’s Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you’re trying to live up to but you’re just using it against yourself as a reason why you’re not okay.
Kebanyakan orang dapat bertahan hidup hanya jika mereka dapat melupakan realitas ini dan memusatkan diri ke yang lain: ke karier mereka, ke investasi, gelar, anak atau apa saja yang terlihat bertambah banyak.
There is no problem more difficult to solve than that created by ourselves.
Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!
True siblings are bound together by far more essential things than blood, while more times than many blood isn’t thicker than water.
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I’d been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale’d have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.
Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion.
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
I’ve never been pigeonholed and I’ve experienced so many different kinds of skin – what man will do and won’t do, what you should do and shouldn’t do. This is what’s exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we’re actually acting them out in front of cameras.
I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.
Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend’s accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.