Tag: philosophy

..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man....

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking....

It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,’ she said.It seems to be true,’ he admitted. ‘I wonder why.’Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever...

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea....

We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is,...

One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened....

Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say,...

The best things in life are crazy....

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind....

There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives...