William James: Religion of the Once-Born and Religion of the Twice-Born
At the close of it we were brought into full view of the contrast between the two ways of looking at life which are characteristic respectively of what we called the healthy-minded, who need to be born only once, and of the sick souls, who must be twice-born in order to be happy. The result […]
Poul Martin Møller – Infinite Retrogressive Sequence of ‘I’s’
My endless inquires made it impossible for me to achieve anything. Moreover, I get to thinking about my own thoughts of the situation in which I find myself. I even think that I think of it, and divide myself into an infinite retrogressive sequence of ‘I’s’ who consider each other Poul Martin Møller 1794 – […]
Fooled – Kierkegaard – Relation Between Truth and Belief
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. Søren Kierkegaard, Thoughts of God
Life Must Be Understood Backwards, But Lived Forwards
It is quite true what philosophy says; that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle: that it must be lived forwards. Which principle, the more one thinks it through, ends exactly with the thought that temporal life can never properly be understood precisely because I can at no instant find […]
Vanity of Physical Stimulation – Ecclesiastes 2:1-3
In Part two of the experiment, the collector of sentences explores physical stimulation and it’s work and deeds. Again the preacher found physical pleasure to הָ֫בֶל – hā·ḇel – emtiness, vanity, transitory, unsatisfactory.
Freedom and Constraint: Self and Community
“But he can’t be the kind of person who explains himself to other people. That would weaken him.”