"The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the soul,..."
- Neel Burton
"Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder."
"Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking."
"True humility derives from a proper perspective of our human condition: one among billions on a small planet among billions, like a fungus on a tiny fragment of cheese. Of course, it is nearly impossi..."
"Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available."
"According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It is only by renouncing the self, that is, by dropping his ego defences and ..."
"Ultimately, loneliness is not the experience of lacking but the experience of living. It is part and parcel of the human condition, and, unless a person is resolved, it can only be a matter of time be..."
"By diverting the Dionysian impulse into special rites on special days, the orgy kept it under control, preventing it from surfacing in more insidious and perfidious ways. More than that, it transforme..."
"Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting him up, were it not for his short lifespan, as rival to God. At the same time, ..."
"The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education."