Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'When desire dies, fear is born.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Bernard Williams: 'Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Bernard Williams: ''Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Bernard Williams: 'The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Bernard Williams: 'Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'When desire dies, fear is born.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Baltasar Gracian: 'Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Bernard Williams: 'Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Bernard Williams: ''Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Bernard Williams: 'The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Bernard Williams: 'Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.' Read More