#wisdo

Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday) ↗

— Witold Gombrowicz

#stupidity #wisdom #business

This is what we are like. Collectively as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost 100 years old, and she told me, "There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

Being is the greatest paradox of life in front of death. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#death

We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#death

We have a lot of thoughts throughout our entire life, but ultimately we get all to the conclusion of a single thought: Death! ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#death

We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#death

Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death? ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#life-lessons #wisdom #death

Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#life #wisdom #death

No one has measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ↗

— Palto

#wisdom #love

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool? ↗

— Stendhal

#personality #wisdom #love