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“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.” – Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to Anna Jefferson Marks, 12 July 1788” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Not knowing at what point destiny or death might arrest my zeal, I desired, in any case, to get an idea of everything, in order to discover the special bent of my natural abilities, and also to judge for myself what was worthy of cultivation.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read Read More “No one today likes truth: utility and self-interest have long ago been substituted for truth.” – Nikolai Berdyaev, “Political Testament” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More “No one today likes truth: utility and self-interest have long ago been substituted for truth.” – Nikolai Berdyaev, “Political Testament” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More “Everything that is not absolutely necessary to your happiness has been removed from the visual horizon. The dream is not only of happiness, but of happiness conceived in perfect isolation.” – Zadie Smith, “Find Your Beach” (via thirdity) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More “There are law-abiding and agreeable people who think and talk about humanity and life as if they were discussing the best way of breeding sheep, or buying and selling land. These are the economists of morality, and really all morality without philosophy, no matter how sophisticated and sublimely poetical, always retains a certain intolerant and Read More “The man of Virtue rests without thought, moves without plan. He has no use for right and wrong, beautiful and ugly. To share profit with all things within the four seas is his happiness, to look after their needs is his peace.” – Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 12) Originally appeared Read More “I would only believe in a God who knows how to dance.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More “Just as the trunk of a banana tree is nothing when split into pieces, in the same way too, the ‘I’ is not a real entity when hunted out analytically.” – Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (9:74) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More “[Housework] is undoubtedly a great blessing, too, because it keeps me sane, it forces me to live a regular life & is in general good for me although I curse it every day.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Letter to Lee Malcolm (5 June 1948)” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More “What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” – George Eliot, Middlemarch Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More “One will not banish emotional disturbance or arrive at significant joy through great wealth, fame, celebrity, or anything else which is a result of vague and indefinite causes.” – Epicurus, Vatican Sayings Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More “An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More “Asking whether and how a proposition can be verified is only a special form of the question “How do you mean?” The answer is a contribution to the grammar of the proposition.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More “If acts are compulsive and compulsions unreal, how can acts be real? Acts and compulsions form me. What could empty acts and compulsions form?” – Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Batchelor tr. (Ch 17) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More This is written as a self-imposed exercise. One entry per letter. Doing so raises some interesting questions, the chief one being what to have for each letter. However, there is an added complication that the entries, while tussling for inclusion, are also often interconnected, and as shown by the actual cross-referencing. One might have done Read More “If you want to tell people the truth, you’d better make them laugh or they’ll kill you.” – George Bernard Shaw, attributed in The Saturday Review, 13 October 1951 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More “What is a poet? An unhappy man who conceals profound anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so fashioned that when sighs and groans pass over them they sound like beautiful music.” – Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More “Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.” – Epictetus, Discourses Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More 
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