Shane L. Koyczan
You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams....
Tag: philosophy
Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves
Imagination is cheap as long as you don’t have to worry about the details....
Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp....
Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
According to the Buddha’s teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him ‘What is the beginning...
Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters....
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect....
Albert Schweitzer
It’s not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth....
Daniel Delgado F
Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free....
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated....
John Marmysz, The Path of Philosophy: Truth, Wonder, and Distress
Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized...
