philosophy

"Le bonheur, c'est continuer à désirer ce que l'on a déjà."

"The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values."

"Каждый читатель - тот же поэт, каждое стихотворение - любое другое. Ни минуты не стоя на месте, поэзия никуда не спешит. В разговоре каждая фраза предвосхищает следующую: у этой цепи есть начало и конец. В стихах первая фраза содержит последнюю, как последняя - первую. Поэзия - единственный способ противостоять линейному времени, так называемому прогрессу."

"Follow your heart; don’t fear changes. With love, the heart changes its content."

"For any given problem, if there's a simple solution it will already have been applied. So, perhaps, the solution isn't as simple as you think."

"Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?"

"The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned"

"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."

"Sublime natures are seldom clean!"

"Comfort Zone Your comfort zone has a clock on it, ticking off until it becomes your death zone."

"Human half-truth logic, dates back to Adam and Eve, when he tried to deceive God with a truth, 'we knew we were naked so we hid', leaving God to understand that something was wrong with Adam's logic, because if Adam knew THE TRUTH, he would know that you can't hide from God."

"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."

"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."

"În clipa când ți se impune să nu te gândești la un lucru, te vei gândi doar la el, obsesiv. Interdicția devine obligație."

"You can't always be right, but you can be wrong a lot less"

"Ние строим духовно пречиствателна станция."

"To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false."

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis."

"Sometimes the only way to succeed is to fail backwards"

"The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all"