Kindle Notes & Highlights
Philosophy cannot and should not give faith, but it should understand itself and know what it has to offer and take nothing away, and least of all should fool people out of something as if it were nothing.
It is easy enough to level down the whole of existence to the idea of the state or the idea of society.
Generally speaking, it is a difficult matter to prove that anything exists; and what is still worse for the intrepid souls who undertake the venture, the difficulty is such that fame scarcely awaits those who concern themselves with it.
“What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth” (Ecclesiastes
one learns to know a man’s soul by his dreams.(Plato’s
Let us rightly consider that a generation is not on that account superior because it understands that a previous generation acted wrongly, if in the present moment they themselves do not understand how to discriminate between the momentary and the eternal aspect of the thing at hand.
cannot be forced to be economical even though he is forced to be poor.
The more a man makes use of comparison, the more indolent and the more wretched his life becomes.
Sin is despair, the potentiation of this is the new sin of despairing over one’s sin.
