MondayOct 06, 2025
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish graceful, mysterious, desirable and free and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
We can only learn to love by loving.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of lifes major mysteries.
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
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