The sentiment that one should have done something more reflects, it seems to me, an underlying wish to control the uncontrollable. After all, if one is guilty about not having done something that one...
Encased in an elaborate illusion of unlimited power and progress, each of us subscribes, at least until one's midlife crisis, to the belief that existence consists of an eternal, upward spiral of achi...
آنکه زندگی نمیکند، بیش از همه از مرگ میهراسد.
Sombres, dites-vous? Mais posez-vous la question docteur : pourquoi tous les grands philosophes sont-ils sombres? Demandez-vous qui sont les gens satisfaits, rassurés et éternellement joyeux! Laissez-...
Decisions are difficult for many reasons, some reaching down into the very socket of being. John Gardner, in his novel Grendel, tells of a wise man who sums up his meditation on life’s mysteries in tw...
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
محدود به چیزی اطلاق می شود که بتواند توسط چیز دیگری از همان نوع احاطه شود. فکر هم به وسیله فکر دیگری محصور می شود، ولی جسم بوسیله فکر محدود نمی شود و فکر هم بوسیله جسم محدود نمی شود
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you will always find despair. I
Cand ne mor parintii, ne simtim intodeauna vulnerabili, pentru ca nu ne confruntam doar cu o pierdere, ci si cu propria moarte. Cand devenim orfani, intre noi si mormant nu mai sta nimeni.
People need people - for initial and continued survival, for socialization, for the pursuit of satisfaction. No one - not the dying, not the outcast, not the mighty - transcends the need for human con...
If you kill God, you must also leave the shelter of the temple.
I must assume that knowing is better than not know, venturing better than not venturing; and that magic and illusion, however rich, however alluring, ultimately weaken the human spirit. I take with de...
Depresia este un efect secundar al mortii.
De waarheid,' vervolgde Nietzsche, 'wordt ontdekt door ongeloof en scepsis, niet door een kinderlijk verlangen dat iets zus of zo zou mogen zijn! De wens van uw patiënt om in Gods handen te zijn is ni...
معنای «شکیبا» را به یاد بیاور! معنای آن این است که ما «باید» در برابر باورهای دیگران، حتی اگر آنها را غیرمنطقی می انگاریم شکیبا باشیم
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This book deals with four ultimate concerns: death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness. The individual's confrontation with each of these facts of life constitutes the content of the existential...
The life of our bodies is only a constantly prevented dying, an ever deferred death…Every breath we draw wards off death that constantly impinges on us, in this way we struggle with it every second…De...
That just seems to be the way we’re built.
Marriage should be no prison, but a garden in which something higher is cultivated.