Quotes by Philosophers

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. Desiderius Erasmus
Wisdom Fear Prosperity Thou Worst Suspect
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals. Edmund Husserl
Life Reality Will Animals Significance Similar Laws Brute Investigating Facts Most Subject Mathematical Fertile Essential Human Which Then Manner Spatial Conscious Consciousness
At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original. Edmund Husserl
Speak Object More Generally Experiencing Processes Lowest Grasp Original Level Cognitive
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible. Edmund Husserl
Science Indeed Possible Kind Would Would-Be Only Empirical Nasty Were Position
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. Edmund Husserl
Closed Every Other Virtue System Possible Correspond Would Would-Be Object About Given True Ideal Ideally Subject Hand Truths Any Which Processes Cognitive
What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection. Edmund Husserl
Reflection Pure Given Only Absolutely Essential Moments
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! Edmund Husserl
Natural Few Changed Ancient Reconstruction Archetypes Habit Perfection Sciences Mathematical Decades Natural Sciences Theoretical Even
Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object. Edmund Husserl
Together Unity Object Followed Similar Something True Make Make Up Courses Still Continuous Up Same Which Manifold Consciousness
The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject. Edmund Husserl
Nature Action Out Along Material Subject Body Therefore Including Actuality Kept
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. Emil Cioran
Revenge Victim Sweet Our Once Feel Always Inferior
Everything is pathology, except for indifference. Emil Cioran
Everything Indifference Except Pathology
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. Emil Cioran
Time Echo Itself Apart Us Tearing Ennui
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. Emil Cioran
Immediately Diminution Make Concession Accompanied Which Each Conscious Inner
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. Emil Cioran
Scorned Fame Than Forgotten Want Dying Prefer
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. Emil Cioran
Death Everything Only Sacrificed Concern Die Even Desire
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. Emil Cioran
Despair Define Out Must Facade Give Only Void He Formula
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. Emil Cioran
Embittered Sadism Souls Skepticism
Sperm is a bandit in its pure state. Emil Cioran
Pure State Sperm Bandit
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. Emil Cioran
Man Starts Everyday Spite He Over Knows Again Against
One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu? Emil Cioran
Live Everywhere Bored Born Point Leaving Been Die Where Should
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. Emil Cioran
Truth Fear Deceived Vulgar Quest Version Being
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on. Emil Cioran
Moving On Better Giving Name Surrounds Endure Moving Us
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. Emil Cioran
Hope Meeting Worse Ourselves Would Someday Someone Off Than Did Human Human Beings Interested Beings
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. Emil Cioran
Oppressor Rarely Rises Almost Arms Always Turned Who Rebels Slave
The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release. Emil Cioran
Nothingness Release Catastrophic Disaster Most Without Capital Phenomenon
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. Emil Cioran
Wound Born Recovers No-One Deadly Disease Being Ever
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