Existence is beyond the power of words
To define:
Terms may be used
But are none of them absolute.
In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words,
Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface,
The core and the surface
Are essentially the same,
Words making them seem different
Only to express appearance.
If name be needed, wonder names them both:
From wonder into wonder
Existence opens.

Lao Tzu

Stichwörter: philosophy



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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

George Orwell

Stichwörter: philosophy humour goodness human-nature



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No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Stichwörter: poetry philosophy



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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stichwörter: women philosophy



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A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

Douglas Coupland

Stichwörter: life philosophy humour aging



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I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

Douglas Coupland

Stichwörter: philosophy soul religion humour



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...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.

Douglas Coupland

Stichwörter: life philosophy change crisis



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Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

Arthur Miller

Stichwörter: philosophy religious



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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.

Anne Fadiman

Stichwörter: philosophy hume



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Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty

R. Kelly

Stichwörter: philosophy literature law



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