“The hunger for believing in good things, usually turns up as starvation.”
― Svetioničar - Pritajeno zlo
― Svetioničar - Pritajeno zlo
“Old age is the most unexpected thing of all that happens to man," - notes Trotsky a few years before his end. If, as a young man, he had had the exact, visceral intuition of this truth, what a miserable revolutionary he would have made!”
― Anathemas and Admirations: Essays and Aphorisms
― Anathemas and Admirations: Essays and Aphorisms
“Man obviously is a being. As such he belongs to the totality of Being—just like the stone, the tree, or the eagle. But man's distinctive feature lies in this, that he, as the being who thinks, is open to Being, face to face with Being; thus man remains referred to Being and so answers to it. Man is essentially this relationship of responding to Being, and he is only this.”
― Identity and Difference
― Identity and Difference
“The frivolity and boredom which unsettle the established order, the vague foreboding of something unknown, these are the heralds of approaching change. The gradual crumbling that left unaltered the face of the whole is cut short by a sunburst which, in one flash, illuminates the features of the new world.”
― Phenomenology of Spirit
― Phenomenology of Spirit
“The things for which we owe thanks are not things we have from ourselves. They are given to us. We receive many gifts, of many kinds. But the highest and really most lasting gift given to us is always our essential nature, with which we are gifted in such a way that we are what we are only through it. That is why we owe thanks for this endowment, first and unceasingly.”
― What is Called Thinking?
― What is Called Thinking?
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