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“At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.”

Want Doe Philosophy Comfort Opposites And Love Bottom Hungry Awful Excitement Desperate Stomach Appetite Starving Converses Very True

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.”

Important Philosophy Sides Streets Opposites Guides

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics, and the charm of humble awe, which is engendered by meditation on the human soul and its experiences. Philosophy is characterized by the gentle, if firm, refusal to succumb to either charm.”

Ifs Men Humans Two Soul Philosophy Meditation Opposites Mathematics Humble Firm Gentle Charm Awe Competence Human Soul Refusal Deluded Two Opposites

Book:An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays

Source: An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays

“Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.”

Philosophy Certain Yoga Opposites Reconciliation Avoidance Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.”

World Philosophy Awareness This World Opposites Opposition Pairs Division

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now.”

Philosophy Remember Opposites Being There

Book:THE COST OF LIVING: The New Work of Merrit Malloy

Source: THE COST OF LIVING: The New Work of Merrit Malloy

“At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.”

World Believe Philosophy Whole Moments Opposites Philosophical Whole World

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.”

Years Persons Philosophy God Able Order Father Son Devil Opposites Odd Twelve Contemplating Trinity Inference

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you are going to help people discover God's original will for them, we've got to know what that will is, and He said it very clear in Scripture: He created man to have to dominion over earth. He wanted to establish man's authority on earth to represent heaven on earth, and most of our theological philosophy is completely opposite of that.”

People Ifs Knows Men Said Philosophy Helping Wanted Earth Heaven Clear Authority Opposites Originals Scripture Dominion Theological Heaven On Earth

Author:Myles Munroe

“My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.”

Knows Matter Philosophy Spirit Opposites Fundamentals Materialism Absurdity Axioms Spiritualism

Author:Thomas Huxley