philosophy

"We feel most alive when we are closest to death."

"Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies."

"The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation."

"They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds."

"Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all."

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions."

"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."

"I have a sickness doctors can't cure,Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction,Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her love,Eager, like the drunk gulping wine mixed with poison,Shameless were those my nights,Yet my soul loved them beyond all passion."

"The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies."

"Sin is a gravitation."

"Iran [10w] In Teheran daylight dawnswith minarets against skies of bronze."

"Septimus has been working too hard"- that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought."

"It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else."

"Rain Check I'm a shitty typist and speller, I hunt and peck,I wrote, "i LeFt mY sWeEtToOtH iN yOuR nEcKoF tHe WoOdS, cOuLd YoU pLeAsE bRiNgIt BeCk."Surprisingly, you did,and left."rAiN cHeCk."

"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."

"Христовият мир е свобода от греха, а мирът на света е свобода на греха..."

"Do not look for my heart any more; the beasts have eaten it."

"That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire."

"I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it."

"He who knows how to use the power of love is the most powerful."