Posts tagged philosophy.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

It is impossible to avail oneself of the scientific spirit if one is not in a position, at every moment of thinking life, to reconstruct the whole of one’s knowledge.

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

A philosopher who has traversed many kinds of health, and keeps traversing them, has passed through an equal number of philosophies; he cannot keep from transposing his states every time into the most spiritual form and distance: this art of transfiguration is philosophy.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Even cohabitation has been corrupted—by marriage.

If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?

Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best—” and then he had to stop and think. Because although eating honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.

If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine of them would be blank. On the last page I would write, “I recognize only one duty and that is to love.” And as far as everything else is concerned, I say no.

What is the seal of liberation? — No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Give yourself up and find yourself again.