Keep constantly in your mind how many doctors die after a lifetime of wrinkling their brows in thought over the sick; and how many astrologers die after predicting with much ceremony the death of others; and how many philosophers die after exhausting their minds with countless discourses concerning death and immortality; and how many military [...]
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.... Friedrich Nietzsche
“Comparing” The source of “Not Happy”
It is a very interesting thing this “Comparing.” It is one of the greatest sources of suffering of our times. If you are not happy you are most likely comparing.
My mother was 64 years old. She struggled with breast cancer for 8 years and passed away in January. As people poured to our home, there [...]
Facts are NOT the Facts
From the book, Sartre for Beginners by Donald Palmer
A group of friends on vacation go for a day hike in the Alps. Half way to the mountain top, which is their goal, they turn a bend in the path and find their way blocked by a huge boulder that has fallen in such a a [...]
The Inadequacy of Reason – Pascal
When I consider the brief span of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and behind it, the small space that I fill, or even see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces which I know not, and which know not of me, I am afraid, and wonder to see myself here rather than [...]
From the book “The Power of Personal Accountability” by Mark Samuel & Sophie Chiche
A quote by Volataire. Regarding being a victim in life.
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
What a profound way to put it.
Jasper from – “Existentialism, from Dostoevsky to Sartre” by Walter Kaufman
In every form of his being, man is related to something other than himself; as a being to his world, as consciousness to objects, as spirit to the idea of whatever constitutes totality, …. Man always becomes man by devoting him-self to this other.
The Uniqueness of Freedom – from ‘Freedom and Destiny by Rollo May’
Every other reality in human existence becomes what it is by its nature. The heart beats, the eyes see; it is their nature to do what they do. Or, if we take something inorganic like values, we know what the nature of truth is – e.g., to state things as close to the reality as [...]
Few people ever ‘possess their souls’ before they die
It is tragic how few people ever ‘possess their souls’ before they die… Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.. —- Oscar Wilde
Plato’s Cave – From the book: A World of Ideas by Chris Rohmann
….. We are asked to imagine a group of people chained from birth inside a cave. All they can see is the wall in front of them and the flickering shadows cast upon it. To these people the shadows are reality, even they are merely illusions, or, to be more precise, imperfect copies of the [...]
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