"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."

Philosophy, Actions, Causes, Desire, Force

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"Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ['Waiting for the pieces to fall into place']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Philosophy, Life, Play, Interpretation, Acting

"By freeze-framing the image of our lifestyle, by stopping our mental clock at times and letting time flow, 'psychological' time can replace 'chronological' time and our human condition can be called into question. This opens the door to a new challenge and a new future. ['Svp "ArrAat sur image']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Philosophy, Time, Perception, Existence, Life

"And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Philosophy, Ownership, Power, Humanity, Materialism

"When God broke his deal with me, I turned to the Devil. In the end, I wasn't happy. I realized that the imagination of a perfect being was more limited than that of the imperfect one. Color me unimpressed by the Actus Purus."

Lionel Suggs, American Writer

Philosophy, God, Devil, Happiness, Imagination

"Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Philosophy, Knowledge, Universe, Information, Mystery

"Something has happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangements of part of the Brain is a language. We are parts of the Brain; therefore, we are language. Why, then, do we not know this?"

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

Philosophy, Intelligence, Language, Reasoning, Mystery

"As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Philosophy, Solitude, Discovery, Thought, Insight

"It seems quite pointless to waste health relentlessly in order to earn money that we shall spend on recovering health."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

Philosophy, Health, Wealth, Life, Balance

"And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Philosophy, Memory, Forgetting, Cycle, History

"The mind-is not the heart.I may yet live, as I know others live,To wish in vain to let go with the mind-Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells meThat I need learn to let go with the heart."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Philosophy, Mind, Heart, Emotion, Conflict

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"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."

Philosophy

"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."

Art

"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future."

Time

"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

Wisdom

"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."

Faith

"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him."

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"Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ['Waiting for the pieces to fall into place']"

"By freeze-framing the image of our lifestyle, by stopping our mental clock at times and letting time flow, 'psychological' time can replace 'chronological' time and our human condition can be called into question. This opens the door to a new challenge and a new future. ['Svp "ArrAat sur image']"

"And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men."

"When God broke his deal with me, I turned to the Devil. In the end, I wasn't happy. I realized that the imagination of a perfect being was more limited than that of the imperfect one. Color me unimpressed by the Actus Purus."

"Something has happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangements of part of the Brain is a language. We are parts of the Brain; therefore, we are language. Why, then, do we not know this?"

"As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude."

"It seems quite pointless to waste health relentlessly in order to earn money that we shall spend on recovering health."

"And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way."

"The mind-is not the heart.I may yet live, as I know others live,To wish in vain to let go with the mind-Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells meThat I need learn to let go with the heart."

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"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth."

"Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything."

"If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further."

"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."

"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."

"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."

"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future."

"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."

"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him."