“The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.” KnowsWorldFirstsLongPhilosophyTodayUsedKnow HowWeekLateLong TimeBlindSwearBlindnessDeafHumiliatedDeafnessMontesquieu Author:Lord Chesterfield
“My own interest in Yoga came from a vague understanding of Indian thought and Indian philosophy in the late sixties and early seventies and from looking at the idea of meditation and at what meditation was.” IdeasPhilosophyUnderstandingInterestMy OwnMeditationLateYogaIndianSixtyVagueSeventies Author:Paul Harvey
“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.” WayWellsPhilosophyFactsOur LivesLife PhilosophyLatePerceptionReflectionCaughtToo LateExceed Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
“In the late 60's I was enrolled at Occidental College majoring in philosophy and taking several studio art classes, but I dropped out. It was a very confusing time with the war in Vietnam and the social changes sweeping the nation.” ArtWarPhilosophyNationsSocialClassCollegeLateStudiosVietnamConfusingSocial ChangeSweepingArt Class Author:Stephen Beal
“People of Haiti, I am the heir to the political philosophy, the doctrine and the revolution which my late father incarnated as president-for-life [and] I have decided to continue his work with the same fierce energy and the same intransigence.” PeoplePhilosophyPoliticalFatherEnergyPresidentRevolutionLateDecidedDoctrineFiercePolitical PhilosophyHeirsHaiti Author:Jean-Claude Duvalier