Philosophical Reflection Quotes

"The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding" "The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible, nostalgia for what never was, the desire for what could have been, regret over not being someone else, dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are." "Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?" "Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse strewn with many a philosophic wreck"