All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy
“He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.”
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“We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.”
“If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli’s, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outward display of criticism and skepticism lay concealed a deep philosophical interest even in those dark areas of reality of the human mind which elude the grasp of reason. And while the power of fascination emanating from Pauli’s analyses of physical problems was admittedly due in some measure to the detailed and penetrating clarity of his formulations, the rest was derived from a constant contact with the field of creative processes, for which no rational formulation as yet exists.”
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“What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.”
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“Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.”
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“Live like a tree, giving, forgiving and free.”
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“Language disguises thought.”
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“It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.”
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“The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.”
“Who we are now is all that really matters.”
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“This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.”
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“Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.”
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“What Pascal overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those who go to mass. Or God might punish those whose faith is prompted by prudence. Perhaps God prefers the abstinent to those who whore around with some denomination he despises. Perhaps he reserves special rewards for those who deny themselves the comfort of belief. Perhaps the intellectual ascetic will win all while those who compromised their intellectual integrity lose everything.There are many other possibilities. There might be many gods, including one who favors people like Pascal; but the other gods might overpower or outvote him, à la Homer. Nietzsche might well have applied to Pascal his cutting remark about Kant: when he wagered on God, the great mathematician ‘became an idiot.”
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“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”
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“Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.”
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