8 Quotes Tagged: metaphysical

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The world is dying, but knows none how to Die:
But, whosoever knows how to Die, dies not again.

Kabir, 15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint

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Those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for death and dying...

I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.

Like the vain curlings of the watery maze,
Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise,
So Man, declining always, disappears
In the weak circles of increasing years;
And his short tumults of themselves compose,
While flowing Time above his head does close.

Andrew Marvell, English poet and politician (1621–1678)

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Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.

William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914–1997)

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The Time (T) and Energy (E) we invest in others, people will take it and carry it with them.

This is what seems to me the grave, perhaps the gravest, evil of our time. For history is always somewhat false, and by its falsehood always somewhat warps judgment; but history written on the basis of deliberate falsehood and of repeated and prolonged suppression would be another matter altogether. It would not be history at all.
Now history is the memory of the race; and a man without memory is no longer a man.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

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