philosophy

"Life is a book. We fill the pages."

"Endless Childhood [10w] + {Couplet} Put off summer's endAnd adulthood's vexingburdens shall suspend."

"There are no ordinary moments."

"Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all."

"You must love when your eyes are closed and love when your eyes are open. Love endlessly."

"In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things."

"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."

"To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it."

"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect."

"Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be."

"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?"This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence"really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."

"Percayalah, bila kamu tidak dapat mengalihkan perhatian pada hal lain yang fana..., dan hanya memikirkan kehidupan itu sendiri, kamu akan gila: karena ia akan mengalahkan dan merendahkanmu secara perlahan."

"Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones."

"Having just enough life to enjoy being dead."

"The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true."

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

"It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher."

"Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.)"

"History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.”--from Past Present and Future are One"

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."