“In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows. In my mind are all the halls, the endless procession of them, the intricate pathways. When this world becomes too much for me, when I grow tired of the noise and the dirt and the people, I close my eyes and I name a particular vestibule to myself; then I name a hall.”
Source: Piranesi
“5.641 [...] Das philosophische Ich ist nicht der Mensch, nicht der menschliche Körper, oder die menschliche Seele, von der die Psychologie handelt, sondern das metaphysische Subjekt, die Grenze - nicht ein Teil - der Welt.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Unser Gedächtnis ist der wahre Sitz unseres Ich.”
Source: The Canvas
“Meine Leistungen sind nicht ich. Ich werde nicht geliebt >weil...trotz...<, sondern ich werde geliebt. Punkt. Mein Selbstwert ist nicht an meine Leistung gebunden.”
Source: Roadtrip mit Gott: Leben ist Freiheit und jeden Tag ein Abenteuer!
“There was no sudden, striking, and emotional transition. Like the warming of a room or the coming of daylight. When you first notice them they have already been going on for some time.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“One doesn’t become a leader in a day. It’s a gradual process that begins at birth and continues for the rest of our lives.”
“Cuvier, in his 'Theory of the Earth,' first published in 1812, based his conclusions on his unparalleled correlative research in stratigraphy, comparative anatomy, and palaeontology. At that time he wrote: 'Every part of the earth, every hemisphere, every continent, exhibits the same phenomenon. [...] There has, therefore, been a succession of variations in the economy of organic nature [...] the various catastrophes which have disturbed the strata [...] have given rise to numerous shiftings of this (continental) basin. [...] It is of much importance to mark, that these repeated irruptions and retreats of the sea have neither been slow nor gradual; on the contrary, most of the catastrophes which occasioned them have been sudden; and this is specially easy to be proved, with regard to the last of these catastrophes. [...] I agree, therefore, [...] in thinking, that if anything in geology be established, it is, that the surface of our globe has undergone a great and sudden revolution, the date of which [...] cannot be [...] much earlier than five or six thousand years ago [...] (also), one preceding revolution at least had put (the continents) under water [...] perhaps two or three irruptions of the sea.”
Source: The Adam & Eve Story: The History of Cataclysms
“I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.”
Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“Everything good, everything genuine, comes in sips and little portions.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice