#philosophy

"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories."

"The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment..."

"Yams vs. Sweet Potatoes vs. Cassava vs. Popeye [10w] "I am that I am that I am a yam."

"It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!"

"The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself."

"Schmuck [10w] + {Couplet} Show kindness to a schmuck,it's guaranteed you'll get fucked."

"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."

"This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love."

"Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential."

"Love is the greatest gift of life. Those who give and receive are blessed with the ecstasy of life."

"Detonation vs. Pre-Ignition [10w] Poets have thin skins;physicists call this differential burn rates."

"Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing."

"The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies."

"Philosophy is the highest music."

"The majestic mountain is swimming in the eternal lake of beauty, love, and tranquility."

"The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good."

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

"Free your mind completely to find true peace in this world."

"It is not very difficult to build world peace. We just have to be kind to each other and treat each other with great care."

"Hermit Crab Should a hermit crab be required to have a real estate license?"