Marcel Eschauzier > Marcel's Quotes

“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.”
― Émile Zola

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Most people can’t cope with knowing more than they ask.”
― Bryan Magee

“Although it may be disconcerting to find that something you have believed is mistaken, it is at the same time thrilling, because it opens up new worlds of re-evaluation and fresh thinking, new understanding and insight.”
― Bryan Magee

“Love has its own ethics, which the deliberating will irrevocably offends.”
― John Updike, The Centaur

“…That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”
― Walt Whitman

“Analytic philosophy is an intellectual pastime for people who are clever but do not want to think seriously.”
― Bryan Magee

“Your life would be empty indeed if you didn't regret anything.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.”
― John A. Morrison

“No one has ever met a third person.”
― Marcel Eschauzier, Existential Rationalism: Handling Hume's Fork

“Reason leads to Tao and Tao leads to reason.”
― Marcel Eschauzier, Existential Rationalism: Handling Hume's Fork

“It’s not substance that creates the mind but the mind that creates substance.”
― Marcel Eschauzier, Oneless Oneness: Tao as an Existential Remedy

“We yearn for an audience with reality, yet she hides in her mirror palace. The reflections seem to extend an invitation to meet her. Alas! Looking behind the mirror, we must always conclude that we saw ourselves.”
― Marcel Eschauzier, Existential Rationalism: Handling Hume's Fork

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées