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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and read more
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to read more
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not read more
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything read more
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. - Essays and Aphorisms.
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.
The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.