“If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man - a philosopher - who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner's existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity.” IfsMenReasonGodWould BePainHumanitySinAnswersExistenceDivineMadnessPhilosophicalMiseryBoundsPhilosopherStupidityChosenVanityEnjoymentNo ReasonGod ExistsDespicableUnfathomableQuenchPhilosophical Questions Author:Kedar Joshi
“The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.” MindMatterRealityPhilosophicalPropertyBoundsObjectivesRecognitionMaterialismSoleObjective RealityProperties Of Matter Author:Vladimir Lenin
“We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.” CharacterSpiritualityConsciousnessAngelPhilosophicalBoundsFairySighGuardianResignedGuardian AngelSullenMy Guardian Angel Author:Saint Augustine
“I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the extraordinarily brilliant exponents of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Middle Ages.” SeemsAgeMiddleTraditionPhilosophicalBoundsBrilliantAstronomyEnormousUnfortunateMiddle AgesExponents Author:Philip Kitcher
“The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is in fact an intensification of life a completeness a fullness a wholeness of life.” WayPhilosophyMomentsFactsHappensCertainLove IsAliveSpecialConcernedClaimsPhilosophicalBoundsWholenessFullnessCompleteness Author:Thomas Merton
“I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the lyric could do. I just want the hugeness of experience-which includes philosophical discursiveness-to move at a rate of speed that kept it (because all within one unity of experience) emotional. Also, often, questions became the way the poems propelled themselves forward It brings the reader in as a listener to a confession[.] A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.” WayWantMatterStoriesWantedMovingWrittenEmotionalReaderPhilosophicalUnityRateBoundsSpeedConfessionPacksListenersOverhearing Author:Jorie Graham
“If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.” IfsPleasurePleasePhilosophicalBoundsLibertarianCeaseModerationGreatest Pleasures Author:Epictetus