Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

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"Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it"

Natalie Portman, Actress

Natalie Portman

"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

Michael Hutchence

"I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin"

Leonard Cohen, Musician

"There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

Georg Buchner

"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization!"

Edmond De Goncourt, Writer

"I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

Godfrey Reggio

"We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

Georg Buchner

"Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity"

Edmond De Goncourt, Writer

"What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"We live in a strange bubble!"

Brian Molko, Musician

Brian Molko

"At its best, our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily"

Flannery O'Connor, Author

"I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you"

Emily Bronte, Novelist

"Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"The soul has many motions, body one"

Theodore Roethke, Poet

Theodore Roethke

"Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison"

Georges Bataille, Writer

"This dark diction has become America's addiction"

Kanye West, Musician

Kanye West

"Optimism is the opium of the people"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess"

Layne Staley, Musician

Layne Staley

"Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us"

Georges Bataille, Writer

"Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires"

Muriel Rukeyser, Poet

"Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever"

George Berkeley, Philosopher

George Berkeley

"If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever"

George Berkeley, Philosopher

George Berkeley

"Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

John Perry Barlow

"There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

Clifford Geertz

"I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"No sense makes sense"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves"

Henri Bergson, Philosopher

"It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening"

Eminem, Musician

Eminem

"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

Stephen Hawking

"To perceive means to immobilize... We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself"

Henri Bergson, Philosopher

"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind"

Henri Bergson, Philosopher

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