philosophy

"Когда на тебя смотрят, а ты делаешь что-то гадкое — это гадкое в той же степени марает и тех, кто смотрит."

"I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope."

"Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view."

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

"As individuals express their life, so they are."

"É muito mais lisonjeiro,(...)lutar-se por alguma coisa bela e ideal e saber ao mesmo tempo que não se conseguirá alcançá-la. Os ideais serão algo que se possa alcançar? Viveremos para cabar com a morte? Não, viveremos para temê-la e também para amá-la, e precisamente por causa da morte é que nossa vida vez por outra resplandece tão radiosa num belo instante."

"It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,"

"I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life."

"I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think."

"Who we are now is all that really matters."

"I think, therefore I'll think."

"To expand your world, love everyone even when no one is perfect."

"Gone to the Dogs [10w] All ideals corrupt into ideology to sustain the social order."

"The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity."

"Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it."

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

"Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit."

"If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now."

"Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea."

"Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the last, he ceased to be Benjamin, becoming Israel. And upon his heart had settled the history of five thousand years, no longer remote, but become as the history of his own lifetime. His "I"was the converse of the imperial "We."