356 quotes found
“Now, what if Others were encapsulated in Things, in a way that Being towards Things were not ontologically severable, in Heidegger's terms, from Being towards Others? What if the mode of Dasein of ...”
“Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be?”
“By first grade, my sense of worth was in direct proportion to what I learned and what I contributed back to the class. I had already become a human doing instead of a human being.”
“People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most importantly they arent human.”
“Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and...”
“The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of 'causa sui.' in any case the sense of a God who would alone be capable of giving a...”
“Its important to understand that at every point of opposition to who we are or to what God has called us to do, we are presented with the options of either conforming and giving in, or standing our...”
“Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek.”
“Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every entity. Its 'universality' is to be sought higher up. Being and the structure of Being lie beyond...”
“The fish don't need to know why they're in the water.”
“The earth keeps turning but it never says why.”
“My poems - they sprang from the depths of my being.”
“Accepting the nonexistence of being,when the absence of existence means the negation of being.”
“I am a thin layer of all those beings on [samadhi level] 3, mingling, connected with one another in a spherical surface around the whole known universe. Our "backs" are to the void. We are creating...”
“He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead.”
“Other times when I hear the wind blowI feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.”
“When I strip away my dreams, what I imagine to be my potential, all the things I haven't said, what I imagine I feel for other people in the absence of my expressing it, all the rules I've made for...”
“Confidence is being able to say Fuck you, Im the shit without opening your mouth, say it with your walk, with your smile, say it with your entire being.”
“If you can't be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?”
“We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us!”
