Forwarded from L'appel du Vide. (Qiwi)
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
L'appel du Vide.
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Or a reaction to the events of their life.
A great deal of what philosophies and systems of thought are, is either a subtle and complex rationalization for the personal lives of their authors or adherents, or a reaction against those very personal lives.
In other words, rational thoughts might sometimes be explained psychologically better than contemplated rationally.
The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
- Sir William Osler
- Sir William Osler
For Kierkegaard, objective truth is something to be known, but subjective truth is to be lived and experienced. As he explains it: "if a person does not become what he understands, then he does not understand it either."
Most men are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes. But the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Soren Kierkegaard
When the German soldiers went into the First World War most of them shared the popular belief in a nice God who would make everything work out for the best. Actually, everything worked out for the worst, for the nation and almost everyone else. In the trenches of the war, the popular belief in personal providence was broken and by the fifth year of war there was nothing left of it.
- Paul Tillich
- Paul Tillich