December 2010
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you may look upon life as an unprofitable episode, disturbing the blessed calm...
– Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism (via digitalpidgin)
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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible...
– On the Vanity of Existence- Arthur Schopenhauer (via thetreesweremistaken)
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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible...
– On the Vanity of Existence- Arthur Schopenhauer (via thetreesweremistaken)
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It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure...
– Arthur Schopenhauer (via eriisasleep)
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It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure...
– Arthur Schopenhauer (via eriisasleep)
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The poet takes from life that which is quite particular and individual, and...
– Schopenhauer (via flannelowl)
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The poet takes from life that which is quite particular and individual, and...
– Schopenhauer (via flannelowl)
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How Famous Philosophers Would Tell The Christmas...
St. Anselm On this day that which nothing greater can be conceived of was born, because that which is born into reality is greater than the greatest thing that can be conceived of that has not been born.
St. Thomas Aquinas God was born to some lady. Here I summarized it in this 15,000 page book, Summa Nativity.
Bertrand Russell Why I am not a Christian: a virgin gives birth to a baby, and...
Perhaps the existentialists saw the universe as inherently meaningless because...
– The View from the Center of the Universe (via ashley-sutera)
Perhaps the existentialists saw the universe as inherently meaningless because...
– The View from the Center of the Universe (via ashley-sutera)
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I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The...
– T.S. Eliot, from “Preludes” (via liquidnight)
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[T]he world is real, but… the self perceives the world only in a glass, darkly....
– Russell Kirk, Eliot and His Age. (via manicheanism)
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not,
and a sense...
– Oscar Wilde
If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages...
– Albert Camus (via dream-hope-act)
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads...
– Woody Allen
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
– Oscar Wilde (via acuriousquest)
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
– Oscar Wilde (via acuriousquest)
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Ah, mon cher for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the...
– Albert Camus (via seaale)
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There is not love of life without despair about life
– Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays (1970)
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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a...
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Franz Kafka
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