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  • #1
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The only journey is the one within.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #2
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #3
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

    So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #4
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Think... of the world you carry within you.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #5
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #6
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don't know what work they are accomplishing within you?”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #7
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

  • #8
    Pema Chödrön
    “When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.”
    Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

  • #9
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #10
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #11
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

  • #12
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
    (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #13
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Life is a constant process of dying.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #14
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

  • #15
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #16
    Jens Peter Jacobsen
    “He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living it. How innocuous it all was, and empty, empty, empty! This chasing after yourself, craftily observing your own tracks--in a circle, of course.

    This sham diving into the stream of life while all the time you sat angling after yourself, fishing yourself up in one curious disguise or another! If he could only be overwhelmed by something--life, love, passion--so that he could no longer shape it into poems, but had to let it shape him!”
    Jens Peter Jacobsen, Niels Lyhne

  • #17
    Jens Peter Jacobsen
    “I don't know how it is, but I am so tired of commonplace happiness and commonplace goals.”
    Jens Peter Jacobsen, Niels Lyhne

  • #18
    Jens Peter Jacobsen
    “Of what are you thinking now?" she asked.
    "I am thinking of myself."
    "That's just what I am doing."
    "Are you also thinking of yourself?"
    "No, of yourself—of you, Mogens.”
    Jens Peter Jacobsen, Mogens and Other Stories

  • #19
    Jens Peter Jacobsen
    “She dreamed a thousand dreams of those sunlit regions and was consumed with longing for this other and richer self, forgetting—what is so easily forgotten—that even the fairest dreams and the deepest longings do not add an inch to the stature of the human soul.”
    Jens Peter Jacobsen, Niels Lyhne

  • #20
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation”
    Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #21
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #22
    Immanuel Kant
    “Dare to think!”
    Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment?

  • #23
    Immanuel Kant
    “But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.”
    Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

  • #24
    Oğuz Atay
    “(...) çok güzel kızlar varmış ve Kant'ı da su gibi okuyorlarmış diye söylentiler çıkarıyorlar, doğru mu acaba? Onları ne yazık ki karşıdan karşıya geçerken ve vapurda bacak bacak üstüne atarken ve piyasa caddelerinde gözlerini ilerde bir noktaya dikmiş yürürken göremiyoruz, nerede saklanıyorlar dersin, bak ben ortadayım, onlarda kim bilir ne isterler? Kant'ın kendisini isterler, hem de güzel bir Kant isterler, kirli çamaşırlarını bile kimselere koklatmazlarmış öyle mi? Beni şimdiye kadar otuz yedinci sayfaya kadar okudular, sıkılıp ellerinden bıraktılar, o sayfam açık öylece kaldım, o sayfada sarardım, bizim bir arkadaş vardı, kadınlara kendini acındıracaksın diye öğüt veriyordu bana, çok üzülüyorum – ne yapacağımı bilmiyorum – yalnız kaldığım için intihar etmeyi düşünüyorum diye dert yandı mı bütün kadınlar ağına düşüyormuş, sonra bir yanlışlık oldu: Bu arkadaş -başımız sağ olsun- intihar etti, benim de korktuğum anlar oluyor, insan bu güven olmaz, pencere bu kadar yakınken ve iki adım daha atınca denize düşmek ihtimali varken, korkmayın canım şey, sizi elde etmek için yalan söyledim, ben ölür müyüm? ha- ha, vicdan azabı rolünde yaşamak niyetindeyim, kendimden bahsettiğime bakmayın, asıl mesele sizsiniz, ben yaşlanıyorum, siz hep genç kalıyorsunuz, yıllardır vapura binerim, yıllardır geniş caddelerde karşıdan karşıya geçerim, yıllardır yollarda yürürüm, gördüğüm kadarıyla siz hep gençsiniz, hep güzelsiniz, yirmi yaşında kalıyorsunuz her zaman, bir bayrak yarışında olduğu gibi gençliği birbirinize devrederek ilerliyorsunuz, ben benzetme için özür dilerim, sizi yerinizden oynatacak kadar heyecanlı bir benzetme yapmayı ne kadar isterdim, bizi iyi yetiştirmediler, hep ukalalık öğrettiler, öğretenleri bir elime geçirebilsem, sizin yanınızdaki delikanlılar da yaşlanmıyor, ne garip ne karışık bir düzen bu, bazen yanınızda yaşlıları da görüyorum, sakın paraya kıymet vermeyin olur mu? Sizi onlarla gördükçe daha çok üzülüyorum, beni kırmayın olmaz mı? (...)”
    Oğuz Atay, Tehlikeli Oyunlar

  • #25
    Immanuel Kant
    “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
    Immanuel Kant

  • #26
    Immanuel Kant
    “Two things fill my mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the reflection dwells on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
    Immanuel Kant

  • #27
    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

  • #28
    Charlie Chaplin
    “I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!”
    Charlie Chaplin

  • #29
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #30
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”
    Søren Kierkegaard



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