Spiritual & Philosophical wisdom

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
-Sigmund Freud

 

Hearts were made to be broken, for we are all born to fall on our butt, and Childhood's End is upon recognizing, that only love can mend a broken heart, while falling gracefully counts for extra points in duets, and the worst possible tragedy is to become afraid of the light. You always choke at bat when you forget how to have fun playing the game, and that 90% of this game is half mental!

 

''The only wisdom is in knowing that you know nothing.'' - Socrates

 

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
-Immanuel Kant

 

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Rumi

 

I liked the one about the starry sky and the moral law

 

Kant's categorical imperative is one of the boldest assertions in philosophy Imo. A deontological theory of ethics appears quite ambitious coming from a perspective of post-modernism, fake news, etc. That quote you mention seems like one of his more poetic notions as to how he arrived at such ideas.

 

Ahh... This makes me miss the philosophical discussions from my days at college.

 

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
-Isaac Asimov

 

so true, and if there were only one thing i could make go away and never have existed, this is it. its even pretty much a central theme of most things i would.
not that i've never been guilty of spouting ignorance myself, but this is like a cancer, that seems to have grown even larger then the patient.

the human ego is a very stupid thing. this is why it is easier for me to find interest in things, that have absolutely nothing to do with it.

 

It seems as a society we tend to celebrate the ends of the spectrum, that which appeals to the lowest common denominator and heights of excellence beyond most people's comprehension.

 

The grass isn't always greener, it's just a different shade. - me

 

New day - new nafaka

 

I can't believe I ate the whole thing.

- Homer Simpson

 

Now this is a wise statement, but easier said than done...sigh.