TIMELY WISDOM

Friday, August 31, 2012

Quotes


"Strength does not come from winning.  Your struggles develop your strength.
When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
-anon.



Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.
- Saint Augustine



"It is our choices...that show what we
truly are, far more than our abilities"
- J. K. Rowling



As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of 'mind' with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l' esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part.

- Arthur Koestler


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