Satisfied, completely, absolutely satisfied in every way, this one never is, and to be more or less satisfied is not worth the trouble, so it is better to be completely dissatisfied.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition
“The older a person grows, the more he understands life and the more he relishes the amenities and is able to appreciate them — in short, the more competent one becomes the less satisfied one is.
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“The highest injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.”
— Plato, Republic
“Their fiction has but a single plot, with every imaginable permutation. Their works of a philosophical nature invariably contain both the thesis and the antithesis, the rigorous pro and contra of every argument.
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“Even that part of our knowledge which is logically independent of experience is yet elicited and caused by experience.”
— Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
“The most popular artworks tend to be those that are versatile enough to satisfy the desires of many while also helping us become aware of something that previously escaped our attention.”
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“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. It steels itself to attain the absolute and authority; it wants to transfigure the world before having exhausted it, to set it to rights before having understood it.”
— Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
“There is a strong shadow where there is much light.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Götz von Berlichingen
“There is no such thing as data-driven thinking. Only calculation is data driven. The negativity of the incalculable is inscribed in thinking. As such, it is prior and superordinate to “data” which means “things given”.”
— Byung-chul Han, The Agony of Eros
“And this is how it is: if only you do not try to utter what is unutterable then nothing gets lost. But the unutterable will be – unutterably – contained in what has been uttered!”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Letter to Paul Engelmann (9 April 1917)"
“None of these things that I possess is me. Not even their combination is me. I am the entity that experiences, the subject that perceives and feels and thinks.”
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We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because we cannot do without it.”
— Simone Weil, Waiting on God
“Preference for a human being can be of two kinds. Either we are seeking some particular good in him or we need him. In a general way all possible attachments come under one of these heads.
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“Plurality should not be posited without necessity.”
— William of Ockham, Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
“I want the present without dressing it up with a future that redeems it... I want to find the redemption in today, in right now, in the reality that is being, and not in the promise, I want to find joy in this instant.”
— Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H.
“Courage is indispensable because in politics not life but the world is at stake.”
— Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future
“To find the root of the problem, you must first overcome the deficit in your awareness. You must allow your investigation of the problem to become broader and deeper than before.”
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there is an art of the ugly soul beside the art of the beautiful soul; and the mightiest effects of art, that which tames souls, moves stones and humanizes the beast, have perhaps been mostly achieved by precisely that art.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
“One imposes far too narrow limitations on art when one demands that only well-ordered, morally balanced souls may express themselves in it. As in the plastic arts, so in music and poetry too
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“It is not right to put strength ahead of wisdom, which is good.”
— Xenophanes, Fragments, B2
“It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Dirty Hands
“What does it mean to live well? She thinks it means being able to survive on her own. It means not having to rely on others. It means especially not having to rely on anyone who could hurt her.”
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From Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature
“The identity, which we ascribe to the mind of man, is only a fictitious one, and of a like kind with that which we ascribe to vegetables and animal bodies. It cannot, therefore, have a different origin, but must proceed from a like operation of the imagination upon like objects.”
— David Hume
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
— Confucius, Analects
“A man can control only what he comprehends, and comprehend only what he is able to put into words. The inexpressible therefore is unknowable.”
— Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress
“What is called vitality, sensitivity, and intelligence are not ready-made qualities, but a way of casting oneself into the world and of disclosing being.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
“We might think that by knowing more we also become more aware. But knowledge is not awareness. Knowledge is a tool that awareness can employ, but it is always only a tool.”
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.”
— Socrates, in Plato’s Apology
“I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your body or your wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you:
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