To have distinctiveness is to believe in the distinctiveness of everyone else, because distinctiveness is not mine but is God’s gift by which he gives being to me, and he indeed gives to all, gives being to all. (p. 271)
Søren KierkegaardTags: philosophy unique
The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures.
Susan SontagTags: photography philosophy essays photography-quotes
Maybe happiness lies in imperfection more than perfection.
Ketan BhagatTags: philosophy
You can label jam, you can't label man
Benny BellamacinaTags: wisdom philosophy humour mankind quote witty-quotes
The important thing to remember is not to forget
Benny BellamacinaTags: wisdom life philosophy relationships wit famous-quotes witty-quotes
The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason.
Bertrand RussellTags: philosophy
Symbol sometimes of the Devil,sometimes of the Risen Christ, no animal is more untrustworthy than the cock.
Umberto EcoTags: philosophy name-of-the-rose
If a faithful account was rendered of man's ideas upon the Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the word Gods has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown causes of the effects he witnessed; that he applies this term when the spring of natural, the source of known causes ceases to be visible: as soon as he loses the thread of these causes, or as soon as his mind can no longer follow the chain, he solves the difficulty, terminates his research, by ascribing it to his gods; thus giving a vague definition to an unknown cause, at which either his idleness, or his limited knowledge, obliges him to stop. When, therefore, he ascribes to his gods the production of some phenomenon, the novelty or the extent of which strikes him with wonder, but of which his ignorance precludes him from unravelling the true cause, or which he believes the natural powers with which he is acquainted are inadequate to bring forth; does he, in fact, do any thing more than substitute for the darkness of his own mind, a sound to which he has been accustomed to listen with reverential awe?
Paul-Henri ThiryTags: truth knowledge questioning philosophy religion atheism ignorance materialism gods divinity god-of-the-gaps
Don't trust something you don't understand !!
jojo1980Tags: truth advice philosophy trust life-philosophy
Always think backwards before moving forwards
Benny BellamacinaTags: humor wisdom life thinking love philosophy time
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