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On Nobility -

"Just as previously we saw hatred and wickedness conditioned by egoism, and this depending on knowledge being entangled in the principium individuationis (principle of individuation), so we found as the source and essensce of justice, and, when carried farther to the highest degree, of love and magnanimity, that penetration of the principium individuationis. This penetration alone, by abolishing the distinction between our own individuality and that of others, makes possible and explains perfect goodness of disposition, extending to the most disinterested love, and the most generous self-sacrifice for others." - Schopenhauer

On Knowledge -

The ancient who desired to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire, first ordered well their own state. Wishing to order well their own state, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families they first cultivated their own person. Wishing to cultivate their own persons, they first rectified their heart. Wishing to recify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in there thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thought, they extended their knowledge to the utmost; and this extension of knowlegde lay in the investigation of things. Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their heart being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated their families were regulated. Their family being regulated, their states were rightly goverend. Their states being rightly governed , their whole empire was made tranquil and happy. From the Emeror down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person, the root of every thing besides. - Confucious

On The Divine -

"He dwells in us, not in the nether world, not in the starry heavens, the spirit living within us fashions all this" - Agrippa von Nettesheim

"I know God could not live a moment without me; for if I should come to naught, he too must cease to be." - Angelus Silesius

"I am all this creation collectively, and besides me there exists no other being." - from the Upanishads of the Veda

On Spirit -

"Our spirit is a being of a quite indestructable nature; it acts continuously from eternity to eternity. It is similar to the sun which seems to set only to our earthly eyes, but which really never sets; it shines on incessantly" - Goethe

On Opinion and Perception -

"It is not things that disturb men, but opinions about things." - Epictetus

"There are more things that terrify us than there are that oppress us, and we suffer more often in opinion than in reality." - Seneca

On Desire -

"For so long as we lack what we desire, it seems to us to surpass everything in value; but when it is aquired, it at once appears like something different; and a similar longing always holds us fast, as we thirst and hanker after life." - Lucretius

On the Sublime -

"Nature in turbulent and tempestuous motion; semi-darkness through threatening black thunder-clouds; immense, bare, overhanging cliffs shutting out the view of heaven; rushing, foaming masses of water; complete desert; the wail of the wind sweeping through the ravines. Our dependence, our struggle with hostile nature, our will that is broken in this, now appears clearly before our eyes... The impression becomes stronger when in these surroundings the roaring of a falling stream deprives us of the possibility of hearing our own voices. The storm of temptuous seas; mountainous waves rise and fall, are dashed violently against steep cliffs, and shoot their spray high into the air. The storm howls, the sea roars, the lightening flashes from black clouds, and thunder-claps drown the noise of the storm and sea. In the unmoved and unthreatened beholder of such a scene, the two-fold nature of his consiousness reaches the highest distinctness. Simultaneously, he feels himself as individual, as the feeble phenomona of will, which the slightest touch of these forces can annihilate, helpless against powerful nature, dependent, abandoned to chance, a vanishing nothing in the face of stupendous forces; he himself is ripped free from all willing and all needs, in the quiet contemplation of pure perception... this is the full impression of the sublime." - Schopenhauer

On Justice -

"Do you think that crimes ascend to the Gods on wings, and then someone has record them all on the tablet of Jove, and that Jove looks at them and pronounces judgment on men? The whole of heaven would not be great enough to contain the sins of men, were Jove to record them all, nor would he to review them and assign each his punishment. No! the punishment is already here, if you will only see it!"

On Humanity -

"Men have less hesitation about offending one who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared, for love is held together by a chain of obligation which, because men are sadly wicked, is broken at every opportunity to serve their self-interest, but fear is maintained by a dread of punishment which never abandons you." - Machievelli

"Man! all love you; great is that throng around you; All flock to you that they may attain God." - Angelus Silesius

On Love and Life -

"Live the love that gives it's return, the higher you're living, the purer it burns..." - Tommy Hall

On Death -

It appears there is a narrow path which brings us safely to our journey's end, with reason as our guide. As long as we have a body, and this evil can mingle with our soul, we shall never completely attain what we desire, namely truth. For the body is forever wasting our time with its demands. It fills us with passions, desires, fears, and all kinds of imaginings and foolishness. It is always preventing us from thinking properly. The body alone, and its desires, cause wars, social divisivness, and battles; for the origin of all war is the desire for wealth, and we are forced to pursue wealth because we are enslaved by the wishes of the body. Even if we manage to free ourselves from the body for a while, and try to examine some matter, it hinders us at every step of the inquiry, causing confusion and trouble and panic, so that we cannot see the truth for it. The soul by itself can see things as they truly are. While we live we come closest to true knowledge if we have no use for communion with the body beyond what is absolutely necessary, and if we are not defiled by its nature. We must live pure until time releases us. When we are thus pure and released from the follies of the body we shall dwell, I imagine with others who are pure like ourselves, and we shall of ourselves know all that is pure. - the words of Socrates, as documented by Plato
Socrates last words "Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; please don't forget."

- These were Socrates' last words, before he was executed. In Greek culture, it was common for men who recoved from an illness to sacrafice chickens or hens, as a libation to the God of medicine, Asclepius. In otherwords, Socrates is saying he owes a cock to Asclepius, for relieving him of all the evils of this world.

On The Immensity of the Universe

"If we lose ourselves in contemplation of the infinite greatness of the universe in space and time, meditate on the past millennia and on those to come; or if the heavens at night actually bring innumerable worlds before our eyes, and so impress on our consciousness the immensity of the universe, we feel ourselves reduced to nothing; we feel ourselves as individuals, as living bodies, as transient phenomena of will, like drops in the ocean, dwindling and dissolving into nothing. But against such a ghost of our own nothingness, against such a lying impossibility, there arises the immediate consciousness that all these worlds exist only in our representation, only as modifications of the eternal subject of pure knowing. This we find ourselves to be, as soon as we forget individuality; it is the necessary, conditional supporter of all worlds and of all periods of time. The vastness of the world, which previously disturbed our peace of mind, now rests within us; our dependence on it is now annulled by its dependence on us." - Schopenhauer ( view more )
Things I would like to do before I die: Get married, write a book, meet Tommy Hall, raise a child, make a record, hang a king, and start a revolution...