"True philosophy must start from the most..." - Quote by Albert Schweitzer
True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."
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“Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.”
“Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.”
“The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.”
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“We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.”
“Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation”
“The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.”