“-Truly, freeing oneself in one’s own mind is only the first step on a path of freedom.-”
“We each appear only one time in history. Whatever occurs in our life will never occur again. Our life is significant and worthy of living if we are brave, love fearlessly, and remain optimistic regardless of our earthly hardships.”
“Het verschil tussen vriendschap en liefde is dat vriendschap afwezigheid verdraagt.”
“Observing Subjectively; Objecting subjection s intimately. The Sublime from the relaxed state of awe, hatches the state of beauty which flows through. As Above So Below, As Within So Without, The Monad of Experience.”
“أعتقد إنني في الأساس خُلقت لأتزوج و أنجب الأولاد ككل النساء و أنظف القدور و أنجب طفلاً كل سنة.. إذات تزوجتِ لمجرد الزواج فلن تسعدي !”
“All kinds of things are happening to me. I begin. ,,Some I choose, some I didn t. I don t know how to tell one from the other any more. What I mean is, it feels like everything s been decided in advance - that I m following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn t matter how much I think things over, how much effort I put into it. In fact, the harder I try, the more I lose my sense od who I am. It s as if my identity s an orbit that I ve strayed far away from, and that really hurts. But more than that, it scares me. Just thinking about it makes me flinch. Oshima gazes deep into m eyes. Listen, Kafka. What you are experiencing now is the motif od many Greek tragedies. Man does not chose fate. Fate chooses man. That is the basic world view of Greek drama. And the sense od tragedy - according to Aristotle - somes, ironically enough, not drom the protagonist s weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I am getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. Sophocles Oedipus Rex being a Great example. Oedipus is drawn into tragedy not because of lazines or stupidity, but because of his courage and honesty. So an inevitable irony results.”
“A living philosophy entails a conscious act of awareness. Without a living philosophy to guide and support us, we are not living as receptive, thinking, and emotionally responsive human beings; we are merely surviving as people.”
“Many of us feel alone and assaulted by the meaninglessness of what we are doing. But, at such times, we are doing; the problem is not a lack of activity with a point, but rather questions about the point of the activity.”
“Philosophic concepts are a form of sentiment. Conflicts between lofty ideas and vouchsafed values are endemic for any thinking person.”
“All philosophic propositions, every attempt to think including all acts of oral or written articulation of an argument and metaphorically expressed ideas, are subject to the dynamics and limitations of human language. The spoken thought is only part of any philosophic message; the other part is unsaid because it is unsayable. The crux of any philosophic proposition reverberates in the echo of silence, the thought that lies in-between the lines.”
“Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep”
“If a religion asks one to kill another just because he or she follows not this ism, nor agrees with it; then, it s a hell-hole, worse than a prison. Run away, and far from it. As though your butt is on fire. And before you, yourself are imprisoned.”
“Some wear greed as a fine suit of clothes. But you, my son, bear its stamp ever more poorly.”
“Understanding of oneself is the first act in establishing a transformative philosophy for living a vivid and a reflective existence. Knowing thy self is essential to designing and instigating a meaningful life that is self-directed instead of exclusively controlled by innate traits and external determinates.”
“How has he moved so quickly from childlike naïvité to existential panic?”
“My philosophy of life: “Don’t just sit around doing nothing and wasting your time—get off your butt and start doing something and wasting your time.”
“Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there s nobody to live in it.”