#phil

The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard. ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#death #life #philosophical #thoughts #death

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

#dead #dumb #history #me #philosophy

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#happiness #love #philosophy #death

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant. ↗

— Julien Benda

#attached #man #merchant #much #nations

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#intelligence #philosophers #poets #sense

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#established #how #i #i do #know

Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life. ↗

— René Descartes

#happiness #philosophy #purpose #thinking #beauty

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #literature #philosophy #art

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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