Who said it?
Who said it?
Do you know to whom these quotes belong to?
Do you know to whom these quotes belong to?
This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this?
“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”
Where id is, there shall ego be.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
There is no perfection only life
Eppur Si Muove
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.