Tag: philosophy

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world....

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart....

Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it....

Violence begins with the fork....

Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values....

If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions...

Where do one’s fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?...

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief....

We…sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn’t good enough....

We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, while God has honoured us with rational speech and a sense of equity....