Quotes by Essayists - Page 108

We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity.
Sorin Cerin
To breath through the truth is not the same with knowing it.
Sorin Cerin
The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies.
Sorin Cerin
Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity.
Sorin Cerin
Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities.
Sorin Cerin
We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion.
Sorin Cerin
To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death.
Sorin Cerin
The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death.
Sorin Cerin
We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl of time, the sea that has always been within us flows on our face.
Sorin Cerin
Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion.
Sorin Cerin
Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.
Sorin Cerin
Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death?
Sorin Cerin
Even the snow melts, let alone the frugal regards of a soul confident in its own eternity.
Sorin Cerin
Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.
Emil M. Cioran
A wise man, once he is past fifty, does not befuddle his senses with strong drink, nor make violent love in the cool spring night, nor dance on his hands.
Frans G. Bengtsson
Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed and embittered if they fall short- to try to do good with people rather than to them- this is my religion on its human side. And if God exists, I think that he must be in the warm sun, in the kindly actions of the people we know and read of, in the beautiful things of art and nature, and in the closeness of friendships.
Randolph Bourne
The worship of power is an old religion.
George Santayana
To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.
Marilynne Robinson
The ending can only start with the beginning and end with self estrangement, as to become once again his own/old self. This is why every man is a continuous ending.
Sorin Cerin
No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth.
Sorin Cerin
How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?
Sorin Cerin
We will never be more that we have been destined to be!
Sorin Cerin
The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie.
Sorin Cerin
Emptiness is this world’s greatest discovery. Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?
Sorin Cerin
I hate wise men because they are lazy, cowardly, and prudent. To the philosophers' equanimity, which makes them indifferent to both pleasure and pain, I prefer devouring passions. The sage knows neither the tragedy of passion, nor the fear of death, nor risk and enthusiasm, nor barbaric, grotesque, or sublime heroism. He talks in proverbs and gives advice. He does not live, feel, desire, wait for anything. He levels down all the incongruities of life and then suffers the consequences. So much more complex is the man who suffers from limitless anxiety. The wise man's life is empty and sterile, for it is free from contradiction and despair. An existence full of irreconcilable contradictions is so much richer and creative. The wise man's resignation springs from inner void, not inner fire. I would rather die of fire than of void.
Emil M. Cioran
If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
Edward Abbey
Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.
Dejan Stojanovic
Whoever lost the truth has lost him/her self.
Sorin Cerin
For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom,’ ‘Virtue,’ ‘Heroism,’ ‘sublime hours,’ and ‘great moments of life,’ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it only for an instant, on the step of one of the eternal gates whence we see that the faintest cry, the most colourless thought, and most nerveless gestures do not drop into nothingness; …
Maurice Maeterlinck
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
Do not ever go out of yourself because you will get lost even from your life.
Sorin Cerin
To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom.
Sorin Cerin
If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us.
Sorin Cerin
Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday)
Witold Gombrowicz
What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.
Barbara Kingsolver
Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.
John Crowley
When you love you give meaning to this world.
Sorin Cerin
The night is still waiting.
Dejan Stojanovic
Dream by making and make by dreaming.
Dejan Stojanovic
We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.
Dejan Stojanovic
Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
Dejan Stojanovic
He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.
Dejan Stojanovic
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.
Dejan Stojanovic
Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.
Dejan Stojanovic
To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.
Dejan Stojanovic
We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.
Chuck Klosterman
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine, one of the nation, of many nations, the smallest the same and the the largest
Walt Whitman
Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.
Dejan Stojanovic
Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.
Dejan Stojanovic
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.”(August 9, 1955)
Flannery O'Connor
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
Dejan Stojanovic
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.
Flannery O'Connor
La rutina no está tanto en las cosas como en nuestra incapacidad para crear a cada momento un vínculo original con ellas, en nuestra tendencia a leerlas por la falsilla de lo rutinario, de lo ya aprendido. Hay que seguir dejando siempre abierta la puerta al cuarto de jugar.
Carmen Martín Gaite
To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.
Dejan Stojanovic
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.
Dejan Stojanovic
The most complicated skill is to be simple.
Dejan Stojanovic
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
Dejan Stojanovic
Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.
Dejan Stojanovic