Knowledge is limited, only stupidity is unlimited.
Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a “falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person. Though.
This world is supposed to have been made by a God? No, much better by a devil!
Myrna. Listen hard to what I’m going to say. You’re collecting and hoarding. You’re accumulating information from me, but you’re not giving anything back! I believe you’re trying to relate to me differently now but I’m not experiencing it as engagement. I don’t feel yet that you’re relating to me as a person – it’s more like you regard me as a data bank from which you make withdrawals.
But those things aren’t you. They are just things about you, not the real, the core you. Look at the center of you. What do you want to change there?
That just seems to be the way we’re built.
Yes, Bento had one weak spot, and Simon had discovered it. Bento was in love with books – not only the reading of books but the possession of them.
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 contact.
One thing he resolved was not to make that one good year a bad year by grieving that it was not more than a year.
If you kill God, you must also leave the shelter of the temple.
Husserl – he’s one of the greats. His term noema refers to the thing as we experience it, the thing as structured by us.
Oamenii ii plac pe cei carora le pasa de ei.
Partea intunecata a admiratiei este invidia combinata cu nemultumirea fata de modestia propriei conditii.
The most common secret is a deep conviction of basic inadequacy – a feeling that one is basically incompetent, that one bluffs one’s way through life. Next in frequency is a deep sense of interpersonal alienation – that, despite appearances, one really does not, or cannot care for or love another person. The third most frequent category is some variety of sexual secret.
Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
Don’t argue: you will lose, and even if you win, you lose.
Ar trebui sa punem o limita dorintelor noastre, sa ne infranam poftele si sa ne stapanim furia, intotdeauna avand in minte faptul ca individul poate dobandi doar o parte infinit de mica din acele lucruri care merita posedate...
In the first, a tornado approached and I led her and others up a fire escape that ultimately dead-ended against a brick wall. In the second dream she and I were taking an examination and neither of us knew the answers. I welcomed these dreams because they informed the patient of my limits, my humanness, my having to grapple with the same fundamental problems of life that she did.
Confruntarea cu moartea iminenta poate sa propulseze omul in intelepciune si la o noua profunzime a existentei.
Am invatat in munca mea, ca se tem cel mai mult de moarte cei care se apropie de ea avand prea multa viata netraita in ei. Cel mai bine este sa ne folosim toata viata. Sa nu-i lasam mortii decat drojdiile, nimic altceva decat un castel ars pana in temelii.