Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.
There is always some madness in love.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.
As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people forget and forfeit their own real interests. "The fact that the vast majority of the population accepts, and is made to accept, this society does not render it less irrational and less reprehensible," he wrote. "The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful."
MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .
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