#philosophy

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing… like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#philosophy #theology #wonder #worship #attitude

You can't always be right, but you can be wrong a lot less ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #philosophy #wisdom #life

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#age

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. ↗

— Louis de Bernières

#philosophy #art

I always wanted to see if I could sell a movie to the public without doing any marketing because my philosophy was like, 'Hey man, I'm reaching my audience everyday. I'm twittering with them. I'm in direct contact with them on the podcast.' ↗

— Kevin Smith

#any #audience #because #contact #could

Love gives you eyes. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #eyes #inspirational #jesus-shock #love

I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#dying #god #heaven #hell #life

There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask the question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everwhere. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#art

Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had I died with my innocence intact? ↗

— Michel Templet

#philosophy #war #home

My philosophy has always been, "do what you love and the money will follow." ↗

— Amy Weber

#been #do what you love #follow #love #money