11.02.2007

Some of my recently discovered favorite philosophical quotes...

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. - Anaxagoras

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. - Sri Aurobindo

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. - Gaston Bachelard

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. - Nikolai Berdyaev

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class. - Annie Besant

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so. - Boethius

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. - Albert Camus

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