Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- banach's
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all
Douglas Adams
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it in himself.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
The transcendental object which may be the ground of this appearance that we call matter is a mere something of which we should not understand what it is, even if someone were in a position to tell us.
(Critique of Pure Reason)
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth's service, and for love of it, that people have overthrown the gods and at last God himself. "The truth" outlasts the downfall of the world of gods, for it is the immortal soul of this transitory world of gods; it is Deity itself.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody ever tell you different.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
The propositions of logic describe the scaffolding of the world, or rather they represent it. They have no 'subject-matter'.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
He who gets to the bottom of his mind comes to know his own nature; knowing his own nature, he also knows God. Preserving one's mind in its integrity and nourishing one's nature is the way to serve God.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
Optimism and pessimism, as cosmic philosophies, show the same naive humanism; the great world, so far as we know it from the philosophy of nature, is neither good nor bad, and is not concerned to make us happy or unhappy.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.