philosophy

"Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way."

"THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM[all snap flags]Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem."

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

"You may be born thousands of years from now, but over the boundaries of time I am sending you my love and wishing you a joyful and wonderful life."

"There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"Revel in the Unraveling Being authentic is lifting the maskon who you think you should be seen as,and becoming at ease with your bare ass vulnerability.Revel in the unraveling,take courage in sharing your imperfections,and you'llincrease your loveexponentially."

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

"Curse of the Ageing Woman {Couplet} I'm a wallflower, bluestocking, left on the Shelf, When you're beyond one's sell-by date, you've left by yourself,"

"Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves."

"Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship."

"While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil."

"I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats."

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

"People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)"

"Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia."

"It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect."

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

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

"Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief."