philosophy

"Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it."

"We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love."

"Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order."

"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."

"Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience."

"For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination. He felt at times as though he had been born with a talent for which there was at present no objective."

"The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language."

"Whatever fills your heart with joy and fills your mind with love--that is your truth of love."

"Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?"

"Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something(All The King's Men)"

"Don’t try to smell the flowers without planting them."

"Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting."

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself."

"Love vs. Honeymoon [10w] Love is what truly begins when the honeymoon is over."

"Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day."

"The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and kismat to deal with the irrationality of its sequence"

"Stop searching and start revealing the treasures that reside inside of your heart."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity."

"All I wanted to do, ever, was be myself."