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“When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.”
“Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism ...”
“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”
“If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception...”
“There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.”
“...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.”
“Philosophy is common sense with big words.”
“I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is u...”
“How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
“The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.”
“Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.”
“Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because...”
“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity an...”
“Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings”
“The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.”
“The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. He sits down beside Tolstoy in t...”
“All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”
“Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, becau...”
“The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could yo...”
