“In Marx's entire oeuvre, I don't think there is a single disinterested reflection on death... I was pondering this at his grave in Highgate.”
― Anathemas and Admirations: Essays and Aphorisms
― Anathemas and Admirations: Essays and Aphorisms
“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
“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?
“To judge a thing that has substance and solid worth is quite easy, to comprehend it is much harder, and to blend judgement and comprehension in a definitive description is the hardest thing of all.”
― Phenomenology of Spirit
― Phenomenology of Spirit
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