Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning....
Tag: philosophy
Georges Bataille, Theory of Religion
The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life’s intimacy does not reveal it’s dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out....
Shel Silverstein
One picture puzzle pieceLyin’ on the sidewalk,One picture puzzle pieceSoakin’ in the rain.It might be a button of blueOn the coat of the womanWho lived in a shoe.It might be a magical bean,Or a fold in the redVelvet robe of a...
Robin McKinley, Spindle’s End
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?’It doesn’t, really … Somewhere where it all balances out – don’t the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? – if we could go there, you could...
John Paul II, Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires....
O.R. Melling
Hope burns eternal in the human heart....
Walter Benjamin
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories....
Thomas Aquinas
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder....
H.L. Mencken
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it....
Samuel Beckett
Words are the clothes thoughts wear....
