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Plato's Riddle
“What is that which eternally is, which has no origin? And what is that which arises and passes away, but in truth never is?”
-- Plato, “Timaeus”
[Source: Arthur Schopenhauer, “The World as Will and Representation” (Tr. E. F. J. Payne)] -
Camus
“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”
-- Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus”
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Plato
“All the great arts need to be supplemented by philosophical chatter and daring speculation about the nature of things: from this source appear to come the sublimity of thought and all-around completeness which characterize them.”
-- Plato, “Phaedrus” (Tr. Walter Hamilton) -
Schopenhauer
“If anyone who wanders all day arrives towards evening, it is enough.”
-- Petrarch
“Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up.”-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( Read more... ) -
Of Philosophy and Science
“Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.”
-- Stephen HawkingThe Times has an article discussing the tension between 'knowldege' and 'meaningfulness', between philosophy and science, ( Read more... ) -
Camus
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest - whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories - comes afterwards.”-- Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus ( Read more... ) -
Plato
Plato is discussing the different types of divine madness or possession or inspiration. This one by the Muses is a keeper for me.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<“The third type of possession and madness is possession by the Muses. When this seizes upon a gentle and virgin soul it rouses it to inspired expression in lyric and other sorts of poetry, and ( Read more... ) -
Camus
"In a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between the man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity ... there is a direct connection between ( Read more... ) -
Plato
“We must realize that in each one of us there are two ruling and impelling principles whose guidance we follow, a desire for pleasure, which is innate, and an acquired conviction which causes us to aim at excellence.”-- Plato, “Phaedrus ( Read more... ) -
Hume
David Hume argues that morality does not depend on a god or faith or religion. On the other side, it also could be said that even priestliness is no guarantor of good manners and sound morality.
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