#phil

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#philosophy-of-life #life

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#life-philosophy #love #life

We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#memories #philosophy #life

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#god #life #philosophy #spiritual #wisdom

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen ↗

— René Descartes

#life

If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair? ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#life

A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#philosophy #experience

Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms. ↗

— Carl von Clausewitz

#philosophy #strategy #experience

By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#faith #philosophy #faith

He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#philosophy #wisdom #faith