Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating [...]
What philosophy is as such cannot be answered immediately. If it were so easy to agree about a definite concept of philosophy, one would only need to analyze this concept to see oneself at once in possession of a philosophy of universal validity. The point is this: philosophy is not something with which our mind, [...]
WHEN we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this.
The dew of the morning
Sunk chill on my brow—
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame:
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.
They [...]
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroism
To be fortunate, be not too wise.
Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the door-latch they die outside.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man lives by belief; by logic he can only at best long to live.
Thomas Carlyle
WHY? and WHEREFORE?— God wot, simply THEREFORE! Ask not WHY; ’tis SITH thou hast to care for.
Thomas Carlyle
To stand on one leg and prove God’s existence is a very different thing from going down on one’s knees and thanking him.
Kierkegaard, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard
To have a self, to be a self, is the greatest concession, an infinite concession, given to man, but it is also eternity’s claim upon him.
Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
