
This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.
Arthur Schopenhauer
2025

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.
Arthur Schopenhauer
2025

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
Emil Cioran
2018

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2023

Mysticism is the heart’s scholastic learning, the dialectic of feeling.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2025

One would have to be as unenlightened as an angel or an idiot to imagine that the human escapade could turn out well.
Emil Cioran
2025

That which distinguishes the Christian narrow way from the common human narrow way is the voluntary. Christ was not someone who coveted earthly things but had to be satisfied with poverty – no, he chose poverty.
Søren Kierkegaard
2025

Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life.
Immanuel Kant
2025

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself. Arthur Schopenhauer
2025

To succeed in the world we do everything we can to appear successful already.
François de La Rochefoucauld
2025

When not prompted by vanity, we say little.
François de La Rochefoucauld
2025