Benjamin Matz

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Benjamin.


Limits Of Interpr...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Twenty Love Poems...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
I Don't Want to T...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 41 of 384)
Aug 28, 2023 01:48PM

 
See all 5 books that Benjamin is reading…
Loading...
Emmanuel Levinas
“Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.”
Emmanuel Levinas

Joseph Campbell
“Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth Century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the world, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other. That is what myth is. Myth is a manifestation in symbolic images, in metaphorical images, of the energies of the organs of the body in conflict with each other. This organ wants this, that organ wants that. The brain is one of the organs.”
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

Gautama Buddha
“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha

Albert Camus
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
Albert Camus

Yehuda HaLevi
“Tis a Fearful Thing

‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.

A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –

to be,
And oh, to lose.

A thing for fools, this,

And a holy thing,

a holy thing
to love.

For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.

To remember this brings painful joy.

‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.”
Judah Halevi

year in books
Raffi Levi
80 books | 9 friends



Favorite Genres



Polls voted on by Benjamin

Lists liked by Benjamin