Tag: philosophy

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre....

He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of...

…much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don’t mean anything by them....

…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his...

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of...

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us....

Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)...

Astonishment is the root of philosophy....

They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options....

Vivo sin vivir en mí… muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive… I die because I am not dying.)...