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“The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.”

Way Humans Ends Philosophy Desire Time Suffering Causes Human Beings

Book:Social Intelligence: The New Science of Success

Source: Social Intelligence: The New Science of Success

“Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.”

World Children Philosophy Happens Age Time Individual Philosophical Contemporary Absurd Fancy Whatever Happens

Book:Philosophy of right

Source: Philosophy of right

“And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.”

Thinking Way Philosophy God Time Asks Sex Answers Connections Agree Philosopher Weary Circuits Cryptic

Book:The Deer Park: A Novel

Source: The Deer Park: A Novel

“Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.”

Philosophy Time Ought Criticism Philosophical Reviews

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel