“Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.” InspirationalArtPhilosophyLiteratureAnswersAliveTruth IsMachinesErrorsValuableMistaken Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.” LittlesPhilosophyMightDiesLiteratureInterestHalfAliveDesignWalkingOrdinarySittingExpectedNervousBoredFeaturesSuicidalConsumedWrecksShatteredNervous SystemKinshipSitting Up Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear.” WorldPhilosophySpiritualLife IsAliveEthicsConnectionsProfoundBoundsDisappearRepresentingTotalitySpiritual Connection Author:Albert Schweitzer
“I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.” MindHumansPhilosophyMomentsBodyMemoriesSpaceEmotionAliveAspectMedicinePrivilegeSensesAcknowledgeHuman BodyGood MemoriesSoma Book:Art Psalms Source: Art Psalms
“You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.” MenHeartLongPhilosophyShowsRealityAliveHonestProveAssumptionSincereRealismSkepticismIdealismHonest ManRealistIdealistSceptic Book:Essays in critical realism: a co-operative study of the problem of knowledge Source: Essays in critical realism: a co-operative study of the problem of knowledge
“How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite path, but not to that which is living. Do not reduce reality to a static thing and then invent methods to reach it. ...Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. It has no resting place, no form, no organized institution, no philosophy. When you see that, you will understand that this living thing is also what you are. You cannot express and be alive through static, put-together form, through stylized movement.” WayPhilosophyRealityTogetherFormPathAliveMovementTruth IsMethodInstitutionsFixedOrganizedDefiniteLiving ThingsStatic Author:Bruce Lee
“If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment.” IfsTryingPhilosophyHandsFacesDesireDemocracyAliveDemocraticCriticalExperimentsDialogueWrestlingFragileDispositionDominationDogmatism Author:Cornel West