Pham Giang

“Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.”
― Franz Kafka, Kafka's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition

“Happiness is the longing for repetition”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Nghệ thuật nhằm mục đích gây cảm xúc và mở rộng cảm xúc ra nhiều tầng, tạo nên sự hưởng ứng, làm cho tâm trí quan sát hướng nội bị sao lãng. Nghệ thuật khơi dậy các mối dục vọng đam mê, mà giáo pháp lại nhằm làm các dục vọng lắng dịu. Nghệ sĩ tạo nên một thế giới tưởng tượng hư ảo quyến rũ, còn giáo pháp tìm cách thâm nhập thế giới thực tại Nghệ thuật vì vậy thành trở ngại cho việc giải thoát”
― Hồ Anh Thái, Đức Phật, nàng Savitri và tôi

“A good will is good not because of what it effects, or accomplishes, not because of its fitness to attain some intended end, but good just by its willing, i.e. in itself; and, considered by itself, it is to be esteemed beyond compare much higher than anything that could ever be brought about by it in favor of some inclinations, and indeed, if you will, the sum of all inclinations. Even if by some particular disfavor of fate, or by the scanty endowment of a stepmotherly nature, this will should entirely lack the capacity to carry through its purpose; if despite its greatest striving it should still accomplish nothing, and only the good will were to remain (not of course, as a mere wish, but as the summoning of all means that are within our control); then, like a jewel, it would still shine by itself, as something that has full worth in itself".”
― Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals