Tag: philosophy

Perfection is something we should all strive for. It’s a duty and a joy to perfect one’s nature… The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my...

We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people...

On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it’s own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to...

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice....

Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality...

You must go on.I can’t go on.I’ll go on....

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires....

I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn’t be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict — the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow idea....

Pain may be the only reality but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness. All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and purpose in the cosmic order of...

Art is whatever you can get away with....