Great Throughts Treasury

"For the heart has its own wisdom and understands what the brain cannot comprehend."

"From S the point of view of by pure logic or philosophy, there will be a Often Dialectical tension Between two concepts. For example... If I reflect on the concept of 'being,' the I will be obliged to introduce the opposite concept, That of 'nothing.' You cannot reflect on your existence without immediately realizing that you will not always exist. The tension between 'being' and ' nothing' becomes resolved in the concept of 'becoming.' The if something is because in the process of Becoming, it both is and is not."

"Going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way."

"For the true knowledge you have to leave the inside of each. It cannot be imposed by others. Only the knowledge that comes from within is the true knowledge."

"He just asked questions, especially to begin a conversation, as if he knew nothing. In the course of the discussion he would generally get his opponents to recognize the weakness of their arguments, and, forced into a corner, they would finally be obliged to realize what was right and what was wrong."

"He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life."

"Hegel believed that the basis of human cognition changed from one generation to the next. There were therefore no 'eternal truths', no timeless reason. The only fixed point philosophy can hold on to is history itself."

"Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'."

"He who does not live now, does not ever live: what are you doing?"

"Hegel claimed that the 'world spirit' is developing toward an ever-expanding knowledge of itself. It's the same with rivers--they become broader and broader as they get nearer to the sea. According to Hegel, history is the story of the 'world spirit' gradually coming to consciousness of itself. Although the world has always existed, human culture and human development have made the world spirit increasingly conscious of its intrinsic value."

"Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge."

"Her mother was clearly worried. She had started speaking to Sophie in a different tone since this business with the white rabbit and the top hat. Sophie hated to be a worry to her mother, but she just had to go upstairs and keep an eye on the mail box."

"Her grandmother had said once that she felt it was only her body that was old. Inside she had always been the same young girl."

"Heraclitus also noted the fact that the world is characterized by constant contradictions. If we never were sick, we would not understand what this healthy. If we were never hungry, we would not know appreciate being filled. If you never had war would not know cherish peace, and if he never had winter, we would not realize spring."

"History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process"

"Here's something not unusual in this universe... because everything in the universe, part of the mystery of existence... So I am and you are part of this mystery... but we are so secret that cannot be resolved blade."

"How can we live on this earth and we close our eyes or to find life a matter of course?"

"How can the senses be trusted? The vision process varies from one person to another, while we can trust our minds."

"How many times have I wished I lived before the invention of the multiplication table, or at least before the birth of modern physics and chemistry... that happen to us before any vanity that we understand everything about this world real infatuated."

"How serious is it that men remain completely in control of philosophy and science."

"How do you create the universe? It is behind everything that happens will or sense? Is there another life after death? And not to forget all this, how should we live? It is very easier to ask philosophical questions than answering them."

"How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living."

"However, he did say that a state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm."

"Hume emphasized that the expectation of one thing following another does not lie in the things themselves, but in our mind. And expectation, as we have seen, is associated with habit. Going back to the child again, it would not have stared in amazement if when one billiard ball struck the other, both had remained perfectly motionless. When we speak of the 'laws of nature' or of 'cause and effect,' we are actually speaking of what we expect, rather than what is 'reasonable.' The laws of nature are neither reasonable nor unreasonable, they simply are. The expectation that the white billiard ball will move when it is struck by the black billiard ball is therefore not innate. We are not born with a set of expectations as to what the world is like or how things in the world behave. The world is like it is, and it's something we get to know."

"Hume has said: It is not in contravention of the mind's preference destruction of the whole world to withstand scratching one finger, it may happen that discharged yard weak - minded and not be convicted for their crimes, they would say they are not responsible for their actions, but it never happened that a person acquitted of a crime committed because numb or unfeeling"

"I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig--or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery."

"I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers."

"I am an extraordinary being, you think. I am a mysterious creature ."

"I bet that there are many thousands of details that can change everything to the extent that you do not understand anything."

"I do not like to just these criteria during the lazy and indifferent. I want to decide for waking life."

"I cried because it was impossible to talk with us."

"I did not feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. And longing are On Loneliness two sides of the SAME coin."

"I don't belong anywhere. I am neither a heart, a diamond, a club, nor a spade. I am neither a King, a Jack, an Eight, nor an Ace. As I am here - I am merely the Joker, and who that is I have had to find out for myself. Every time I toss my head, the jingling bells remind me that I have no family. I have no number - and no trade either. I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind. Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: he sees too deeply and too much. Truth is a lonely thing."

"I do not benefit from the research in scientific encyclopedia whether there was a god or life after death. Also, the encyclopedia does not show us the way in which we must live our lives, but the thought of reading what other people are doing, can help us to form a judgment on your life."

"I felt infinitely rich past. How many generations could charge from the appearance of the first amphibian? How many cell divisions could save your account from the first zygote? I felt alarmingly high in the past. But I had no future. Later I was to be nothing."

"I do not think I really do not think so. But dreaming of something incredible has a name. We call it hope."

"I do not think that there is a chicken anywhere else in the universe... So it's hard to call something an ordinary hen"

"I find that thinking that there is nothing lasts forever sexy to grieve."

"I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much."

"I know of a couple that wanted to separate amicably and at it was, the books as fairly as possible to share, when it turned out that they had book after book equally. The more books they took into their own hands, the more they were the, and when they even talked about some of them went on that they were each other much too similar to that they had to separate. They still live together and hold the reason why they wanted to separate at that time, for a trivial episode."

"I really want to wake up... but I am awake."

"I never tried to ingratiate myself with great writers. When a great writer has nothing to say, he does something else, like chopping firewood. A great writer doesn't try to find something to write about, he only writes when he has to. I was no great writer. I've always had the need to unload my thoughts, and so had to live with a kind of mental incontinence, but I've never felt forced to write a novel. Nor, for that matter, have I ever chopped firewood."

"I read somewhere that over twenty percent of women believe that they are among the three percent most beautiful women in the country, it is clear that this equation cannot come."

"I said to myself, this world is not so surprising that people should laugh or cry. Maybe we should do both, but both work together was not easy."

"I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as living. One day we suddenly take the fact that we exist for granted - and then, yes, then we don?t think about it anymore until we are about to leave the world again."

"I sat there and thought how sad that people are so time to get used to because life is something amazing. One day, suddenly, the fact that we have taken for granted. And then, yes then no longer so dramatically when we want to leave the world again, do not think about it."

"I think I know more about the structure of outer space, to go to her cause, without a reason to make this work."

"I tamed myself to the idea that I am just a small part of the great adventure of civilization, just a fleeting fragment of something greater and more powerful to me."

"I think that it does not believe the Creator of the universe lacks the sense of the senses, the sense of the utmost importance."

"I think I've heard something like this in the past. I think... maybe it just seems so far away."