Tag: philosophy

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible....

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness....

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he’s often sure he can find one. And that’s a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy....

Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground....

Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him...

In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself....

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object....

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth....

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose....

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the...