#phil

I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them -- that is, I wish to destroy that by which I live. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life

Sensation is unorganized stimulus, perception is organized sensation, conception is organized perception, science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life: each is a greater degree of order, and sequence, and unity. ↗

— Will Durant in "Kant and German Idealism"

#kant #philosophy #life

Св'јет је овај тиран тиранину, А камоли души благородној! Он је состав паклене неслоге: У њ ратује душа са тијелом, у њ ратује море са бреговима, у њ ратује зима и топлина, у њ ратују вјетри с вјетровима, у њ ратује живина с живином, У њ ратује народ са народом, У њ ратује човјек са човјеком, У њ ратују дневи са ноћима, У њ ратују дуси с небесима. ↗

— Petar II Petrović Njegoš

#philosophy #life

This is so much easier to erase than to write. ↗

— Yannick Heywang

#feeling #life #live #love #philosophy

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated since it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had aloft. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds or rubies. To you? No. To me? Not at all. To himself? Yes. But I do not accept his estimate. He sadly overrates himself. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like honey from the comb, there would have been no loss to the world. He was worth nothing to the world. The supply is too large. To himself only was he of value, and to show how fictitious even this value was, being dead he is unconscious that he has lost himself. He alone rated himself beyond diamonds and rubies. Diamonds and rubies are gone, spread out on the deck to be washed away by a bucket of sea- water, and he does not even know that the diamonds and rubies are gone. He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss. Don't you see? And what have you to say? ↗

— Jack London

#philosophy #religion #life

لو كان العقل على قدر كلام الرجل، لكان الثرثار أكبر الناس عقلاً، ولو كان العلم على قدر حفظ المسائل لكان التلميذ أوسع من أستاذه علماً، ولو كان الجاه على قدر الفضائل لما كان للأشرار نفوذ، ولو كان المال على قدر العقل لكان أغنى الناس الحكماء، وأفقر الناس السفهاء، ولو كان الخلود على قدر نفع الناس لما خلد السفاحون والطغاة وأكثر الملوك والزعماء. ↗

— مصطفى السباعي

#learning-the-truth #life #life-lessons #philosophy #wisdom

If you surround yourself with people that fill in your inadequacies then together you fulfill the world. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#philosophy #reality #life

There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong. ↗

— Martin Cohen

#ethics #philosophy #values-in-life #life

Della ricchezza non ci importa nulla. Del potere non ci importa nulla. Di voi ricchi potenti famosi signori dell’economia e della politica e della cultura,di tutti voi vincenti non c’importa nulla. E state pur certi che non tenteremo di rubarvi il posto, non tenteremo di portarvi via il pane d’oro, state pur certi che delle vostre grandi cose non desideriamo nulla. Perché sempre di più, e sempre più spesso, noi andiamo alla ricerca dei secondi, dei minuti, delle ore lente. Sempre di più desideriamo il vuoto, la leggerezza, la pace d’un soffio di vento che giunge da lontano e che va lontano. A voi ricchi potenti famosi signori, a tutti voi, lasciamo volentieri questo mondo qui. Noi ci prendiamo tutto il resto, noi ci prendiamo la vita. ↗

— Massimiliano Santarossa

#life

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#philosophy #science #dreams