Sartre – Existentialism
Despair and self focus are unfortunate foundations to most expressions of existentialism.
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
Kierkegaard – People Exchange Thought for Speech: Freedom
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ― Søren Kierkegaard
Fred Alan Wolf – Quantum Physics May not be Enough
For example is consciousness only quantum? Is it only explain by quantum physics? I used to think so, back when I was thinking, back in the seventies. I don’t think so anymore, I am now convinced that quantum physics may not be enough. Fred Alan Wolf What the Bleep Do We Know: Discovering the Endless Possibilities […]
Love Discovers Truths About Individuals That Others Cannot See
Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all.
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 […]