“As long as mad men think themselves normal, we are either all mad, all normal, or both mad and normal at the same time.”
“I wish I could see myself As others see me They see my beauty But I only see my anxiety”
“Life is a dog you are used to play with by throwing him a stick. You are used to the game, you trust the dog, but one day it doesn’t come back with the stick. Another day even the dog doesn’t return. The man is a master who finds out too late he owned no dog.”
“Someone—Plato, I think—once said, The unexamined life is not worth living. True. But a life too closely scrutinized will lead to madness, if not suicide.”
“Love at first sight is a polite phrase used when one wants fuck a stranger”
“You re ambitious, Achille. You ve become the chief of detectives in record time, and there s talk you ll be the prefect someday, or even a cabinet minister. You ll have all the temptations of high office--honors, titles, bribes. As for your improvements, see what people think of them when you try to change the world at their expense. You can make your own cross and climb your Calvary; in the end you ll die and the world will go on as messed up as it was before.”
“Love, for it is what we are.”
“to be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independences, magnanimity, and trust. it is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically but practically. the success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly”
“The judicious words of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), the first existentialist philosopher, are apropos to end this lumbering manuscript. 1. “One must learn to know oneself before knowing anything else.” 2. “Life always expresses the results of our dominate thoughts.” 3. “Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.” 4. “Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.” 5. “Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.” 6. “Don’t forget to love yourself.” 7. “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” 8. “Life has its own hidden forces, which you can only discover by living.” 9. “The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, or read about, nor seen, but if one will, are to be lived.” 10. “Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.” 11. “It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate on only what is most significant and important.” 12. “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.” 13. “Since my earliest childhood, a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic, if it is pulled out I shall die.” 14. “A man who as a physical being is always turned to the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside of him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.” 15. “Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend into a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.” Kierkegaard warned, “The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.” Kierkegaard said that the one method to avoid losing oneself is to live joyfully in the moment, which he described as “to be present in oneself in truth,” which in turn requires “to be today, in truth be today.”
“One day you will find a voice inside you! And this voice knows what is right for you.”
“Really, existentialism is a plural term. It just doesn t have an s on the end”
“Your thoughts, your ideas, your inner being is directly influenced by people you spend time with, the group you are part of and the talks you share with them. Therefore, choose your company very carefully.”
“عدم اطمینان مایهی حرص است و بیرحمی فرزند وحشت”
“Passions are in everyone and are what define us, not reason or one world view.”
“If aliens resemble us at all, in any form (Bi-pedal humanoids), then the chance is they are us, either from God, the future or a parallel present. - Ska Martin, Aliens versus God”
“God is playing out every possible scenario in an infinite number of universes all at the same time. We just happen to be stuck with this one… - Ska Martin, Aliens versus God”
“It helps calm me to know that somewhere In the multiverse there’s a better me. It scares the crap out of me that some poor parallel universe is stuck with a worse version of me! - Ska Martin”