I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Baruch SpinozaTag: science philosophy
After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.
Brock ClarkeTag: humor philosophy
When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing--or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need but don't and can't get anyway.
Brock ClarkeTag: humor philosophy
Because this is another thing your average American man in crisis does: he tries to go home, forgetting, momentarily, that he is the reason he left home in the first place, that the home is not his anymore, and that the crisis is him.
Brock ClarkeTag: humor philosophy
A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.
Charles SimicTag: philosophy fish confession
Wenn man nachts nicht schläft, werden Träume wahr.
Selim ÖzdoganTag: life philosophy
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.
John DeweyTag: education philosophy
Etre dans le vent, c'est avoir le destin des feuilles mortes.
Jean GuittonTag: life philosophy french
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
EpicurusTag: philosophy epicurus
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.
Ludwig WittgensteinTag: philosophy religion philosophers wittgenstein
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