By our best enemies we do not want to be spared, nor by those either whom we love from the very heart. So let me tell you the truth! My brethren in war! I love you from the very heart. I am, and was ever, your counterpart. And I am also your best enemy. So [...]
Erich Fromm Quotes
Erich Fromm‘s books “The Art of Loving” and “The Fear of Freedom” shaped my views a great deal when I was just a teenager. Here are some of my favorite Fromm quotes: As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to [...]
Ludwig Wittgenstein on Words
“Here we come up against the great question that lies behind all these considerations. . . . . Instead of producing something common to all that we call language, I am saying that these phenomena have no one thing in common which makes us use the same word for all,-but that they are related to [...]
Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope (c. 412- c. 323 B.C) was a very playful philosopher who liked to use great wit when challenging the values and beliefs of his fellow citizens in ancient Athens. He lived in great poverty, probably begging and stealing his food, and steadfastly disdained all forms of luxury. It was because of his [...]
Seven Blunders of the World
“1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character” [...]
The World As I See It – An Essay By Albert Einstein
“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.” [...]
Nihilism
The word of the day is NIHILISM, as defined by dictionary.com: “total and absolute destructiveness, especially toward the world at large and including oneself.” A common, but misleading, description of nihilism is the ‘belief in nothing’. Instead, a far more useful one would substitute ‘faith’ for ‘belief’ where faith is defined as the “firm belief [...]