Let not the rash marble risk
garrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence,
in many words recalling
name, renown, events, birthplace.
All those glass jewels are best left in the dark.
Let not the marble say what men do not.
The essentials of the dead man's life--
the trembling hope,
the implacable miracle of pain, the wonder of sensual delight--
will abide forever.
Blindly the uncertain soul asks to continue
when it is the lives of others that will make that happen,
as you yourself are the mirror and image
of those who did not live as long as you
and others will be (and are) your immortality on earth.
Stichwörter: life philosophy death self mortality translation inscription-on-any-tomb
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: experience existence self thought existentialism uncertainty bertrand-russell descartes continuity
When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.
Peter McWilliamsStichwörter: life past future self incomplete
The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future. You don't know me at all.
David KlassStichwörter: past future present power self control
The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.
Floriano MartinsStichwörter: identity self self-discovery introspection enemy
I protect myself by refusing to know myself.
Floriano MartinsStichwörter: identity self understanding denial
There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.
Floriano MartinsStichwörter: individuality identity self
You are an ocean in a drop of dew,
all the universes in a thin sack of blood.
What are these pleasures then,
these joys, these worlds
that you keep reaching for,
hoping they will make you more alive?
Stichwörter: life happiness self living
You're a poem?' I repeated.
She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose whose world was swallowed by the sea.'
'Isn't it hard to be three things at the same time?'
'What's your name?'
'Enn.'
'So you are Enn,' she said. 'And you are a male. And you are a biped. Is it hard to be three things at the same time?
Stichwörter: girls self three discord alien
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.
Hermann HesseStichwörter: knowledge learning self siddhartha hesse
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