Seminal Lines
by dollydelightly
“When two people fall in love and suspect they are made for each other, the thing is to have the courage to break it off for by continuing they have everything to lose and nothing to gain.”
Either/Or – Søren Kierkegaard
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Oh that is too sad.
Strangely enough, these are the lines that wife (version 1.0) quoted in an interview about why I was acquiescent with the collapse of our marriage, not that I entirely agree, but she wasn’t wrong either.
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
Marriage and Morals – Bertrand Russell
“Out of passions grow opinions; mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions.” Friedrich Nietzsche – Human, All Too Human
“We speak not strictly and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.” David Hume – A Treatise of Human Nature, Section. iii. Of the Influencing Motives of the Will
“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” Immanuel Kant – The Critique of Pure Reason
“Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers…Here then I find myself absolutely and necessarily determined to live, and talk, and act like other people in the common affairs of life. But notwithstanding that my natural propensity, and the course of my animal spirits and passions reduce me to this indolent belief in the general maxims of the world, I still feel such remains of my former disposition, that I am ready to throw all my books and papers into the fire, and resolve never more to renounce the pleasures of life for the sake of reasoning and philosophy.” David Hume – A Treatise of Human Nature, Section. vii. Conclusion of This Book.
(Hume ALWAYS trumps Kant.)
“Hume’s philosophy, whether true or false, represents the bankruptcy of eighteenth-century reasonableness. He starts out, like Locke, with the intention of being sensible and empirical, taking nothing on trust, but seeking whatever instruction is to be obtained from experience and observation. But he arrives at the disastrous conclusion that from experience and observation nothing is to be learned… In later portions of the Treatise [Treatise of Human Nature], Hume forgets all about his fundamental doubts, and writes much as any other enlightened moralist of his time might have written; he applies to his doubts the remedy that he recommends, namely ‘carelessness and inattention.’ In a sense, his scepticism is insincere, since he cannot maintain it in practice. It has, however, this awkward consequence, that it paralyses every effort to prove one line of action better than another.” Bertrand Russell – Modern Philosophy
“…In the case of a grown man who has made incontestable progress it is disgraceful to go hunting after gems of wisdom, and prop himself up with a minute number of the best-known sayings, and be dependent upon his memory as well; it is time he was standing on his own feet. He should be delivering himself of such sayings, not memorising them. It is disgraceful that a man who is old or in sight of old age should have a wisdom deriving solely from his notebook. ‘Zeno said this.’ And what have you said? ‘Cleanthes said that.’ What have you said? How much longer are you going to serve under others’ orders? Assume authority yourself and utter something that may be handed down to posterity. Produce something from your own resources.” Seneca – Letters from a Stoic.
“I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor shall I ever be.” Seneca
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” Socrates
“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.” Plato
“Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand”
H. Simpson.
(I’ll get my coat)
Haha. Homer’s always been one of my heroes.
‘The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me.
That I must love a loathèd enemy.”
1.4.261-264 Juliet
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