#philosophy

“We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we ...

If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.

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Filth inside out sinners and saints smiling and shaking hands isn't it sweet...

I'm just a drop in an ocean of love a lost ship near your island...

Politeness and honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

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It is too early and it is also too late, which is why you have time....

When I find myself in times of trouble Rainer Maria Rilke comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "You are not too old, and it ...

A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument —

_Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims_

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than

_Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human_

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

_Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations_

When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there

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I’m older than Time and Space, because I’m conscious. Things derive from me; the whole of Nature is the offspring of

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“We meet ourselves time and time again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.” -Carl Jung...

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for acting.

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At the end of every long,...

In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one

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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it,

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Life is long, if you know how to use it.

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“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage,......

"The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self." -Dalai Lama...

Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and

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“Aristotle taught that there was an immovable ‘entelechy’ in the universe that moves everything and the thought was its ...

Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly

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