Tag: philosophy

If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?...

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly....

To be pleasant, gentle, calm and self-possessed: this is the basis of good taste and charm in a woman. No matter how amorous or passionate you may be, as long as you are straightforward and refrain from causing others embarrassment, no...

Me, I’ve seen 45 years, and I’ve only figured out one thing. That’s this: if a person would just make the effort, there’s something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there’s always something you can...

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably....

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back....

When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look...

I, while the gods laugh, the world’s vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me;And in small compass the dark waters cram....

We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later....

Trebuie sa te departezi putin de tine ca sa te poti apropia de ceilalti....