All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“У влюбленного в безмолвие поэта есть одно спасение – речь.”

“Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. As if one were to wear any sort of coat which the tailor might cut out for him, or gradually leaving off palm-leaf hat or cap of woodchuck skin, complain of hard times because he could not afford to buy him a crown! It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have, which yet all would admit that man could not afford to pay for. Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes be content with less?”

“For any given problem, if there’s a simple solution it will already have been applied. So, perhaps, the solution isn’t as simple as you think.”

“And you don’t even need to say anything. I’m screwed up. I don’t know how any of this works anymore than you do. But I do believe you’re worth every second it would take to figure it out,” Mason said, a smile taking over his features.”

“Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.”

“Каждый читатель – тот же поэт, каждое стихотворение – любое другое. Ни минуты не стоя на месте, поэзия никуда не спешит. В разговоре каждая фраза предвосхищает следующую: у этой цепи есть начало и конец. В стихах первая фраза содержит последнюю, как последняя – первую. Поэзия – единственный способ противостоять линейному времени, так называемому прогрессу.”

“Logika adalah keadilan dan dialektika adalah kebijaksanaan”

“Возвращение«Земную жизнь пройдя до половины»,остановился я. И повернулся спиноюк будущему: «там не ждут меня» -и пройденным уже путем пошел.Я вышел вон из ряда тех,кто испокон веков, обманываясь, ожидает,что выпадет счастливый случай,ключ повернется, истина откроется – откроютсяврата веков,и кто-то молвит: «Нет ни врат и ни веков».Я позади оставил улицы, и площади,и греческие статуи – в холодном свете утра,и только ветер был живым среди могил.За городом – поля, а за полями – ночь и пустыня:то сердце одинокое мое – ночь и пустыня.И в свете солнца камнем стал я, зеркалом и камнем.Затем – осталась позади пустыня –стал морем и над морем – черным небом,огромным камнем с полустертыми словами:«Нет звезд во мне».И вот – пришел. Врата разрушены,и ангел мирно дремлет.А за вратами – сад: густые кроны,дыхание камней, почти живых,магнолий сон глубокий,и свет – нагой среди стволов нарядных.Вода потоками-руками обнимаетцветущий луг.И в центре – дерево и девочка-дитя;о, солнечный огонь ее волос!И нагота меня не тяготила:я был в воде и воздуху подобен.Укрытая сиянием зеленым древа,уснувшая в траве,она была –оставленное ветром белое перо.Ее поцеловать хотел я, но воды журчаньевдруг пробудило жажду, я склонилсянад зеркалом воды и на себя взглянул.И я увидел:рот, искаженный жаждой, мертвым был;о, старец алчущий, о, виноградная лоза, агония огня!Я наготу свою прикрыл. И тихо вышел.Смеялся ангел. И поднялся ветер,и мне глаза песком засыпал ветер.Песок и ветер – то мои слова;не мы живем, нас создает живыми время.”

“The Great Way is not named; Great Discriminations are not spoken; Great Benevolence is not benevolent; Great Modesty is not humble; Great Daring does not attack. If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.”

“Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.”

“Христовият мир е свобода от греха, а мирът на света е свобода на греха…”

“When a fixed code of laws, which must be observed to the letter, leaves no further care to the judge than to examine the acts of citizens and to decide whether or not they conform to the law as written; then the standard of the just or the unjust, which is to be the norm of conduct for the ignorant as well as for the philosophic citizen, is not a matter of controversy but of fact; then only are citizens not subject to the petty tyrannies of the many which are the more cruel as the distance between the oppressed and the oppressor is less, and which are far more fatal than those of a single man, for the despotism of many can only be corrected by the despotism of one; the cruelty of a single despot is proportioned, not to his might, but to the obstacles he encounters.”

“The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whether one finds it in the pronouncements of sacred books, traditional wisdom, the authority of churches, democratic majorities, observation and experiment conducted by qualified experts, or the convictions of simple folks uncorrupted by civilisation—this view, in one form or another, is central to western thought, which stems from Plato and his disciples.”

“The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance”

“Let education kindle only those which are truly beneficialto the human species; let it favour those alone which are really necessary to the maintenance of society. The passions of man are dangerous, only because every thing conspires to give them an evil direction.”