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The Fragments of Heraclitus
Original translations
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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life.
Now, take what's left and live it properly.
- Marcus Aurelius
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
- Simone Weil
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Human kind cannot bear very much reality.
- T. S. Eliot
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The most dangerous of goods, language, is given to man...
- Friedrich Hölderlin
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You were more inner than my innermost and higher than my highest.
- Saint Augustine
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I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
- Lord Byron, Darkness
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It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object, and pursued in the invisible and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.
- Ibn Arabi
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Salvation was delayed so that it might be desired, loved, and guarded, because according to Augustine, a bride is delayed in arriving so that she might be held more dearly.
- Saint Bonaventure
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God is not only beyond knowledge, but also beyond unknowing.
- Gregory Palamas
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
- Cicero
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The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
- Seneca
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame.
I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
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The path is made in the walking of it.
- Zhuangzi
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All creatures are doing their best
to help God in
His birth of Himself.
Enough talk for the night.
He is laboring in me;
I need to be silent
for a while,
worlds are forming
in my heart.
- Meister Eckhart, Expands His Being
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Death is the sanctuary of being in the poem of the world.
- Martin Heidegger, The Danger
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Therefore all our work in this life, brothers, is to heal the eye of the heart, wherefrom God may be seen.
- Saint Augustine
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You could not be born in a better epoch than this one where we have lost everything.
- Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
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If you think that you can continue to live without writing, do not write.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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The man who has lost the great symbols of history... before him yawns the abyss.
- Carl Gustav Jung
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As the eyes are fixed upon astronomy, so too the ears are fixed upon the harmonious movement; and these sciences are sisters to each other, as the Pythagoreans say.
- Plato, The Republic, 530d
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Portals
What are those of the known but to ascend and enter the Unknown?
And what are those of life but for Death?
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Love is itself a knowing.
Amor ipse notitia est.
- Saint Gregory the Great
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Not that the self is empty, but that emptiness is the self; not that things are empty, but that emptiness is things.
- Keiji Nishitani, Religion and Nothingness
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The poet to come will surmount the depressing idea of the irreparable divorce of action and of dream.
- André Breton
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Music heard so deeply, it is not heard at all, and you are the music, while the music lasts.
- T. S. Eliot
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He speaks most beautifully of God, who in the fullness of inner riches can most hold silent about him - so that image and work, praise and thanks, or whatever else one might work, sink away.
- Meister Eckhart, Talks of Instruction, 23
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Since Christ,
it is God that is given
and man sought.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Bounded in his nature, infinite in his wishes,
Man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
- Alphonse de Lamartine, First Poetic Meditations
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Images of the First Temple of Jerusalem
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"Solomon spoke... I have built a house of residence for Thee, an abode for Thy dwelling for ever."
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All great things bring about their own destruction through an act of self-overcoming: thus the law of life will have it.
- Nietzsche
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To speak, is to translate... from an angelic tongue into a human tongue.
- Henry Corbin
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I was a prophet sent to myself from Myself.
And it was myself who, by my own signs, was guided toward Myself.
- Ibn al-Fârid
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A city will never be happy unless it is drawn by those painters who use the divine model.
- Plato, Republic, VI, 500e
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The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
- Psalm 19:1
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The Poets at the Sacred Wood, or The Poets of the Gay Science, by Henri Martin, for the Capitol of Toulouse (1893)
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All things the long and innumerable time
brings forth from the inapparent, and once appeared conceals;
and nothing is unexpected:
even fatal oaths and hardened hearts are overcome.
- Sophocles, Ajax, 646
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Prophecy is the voice that God has lent to the silent agony... It is a crossing point of God and man. God is raging in the prophet's words.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
- Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
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گر راه روی راه برت بگشایند
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
- Jalal al-Din Rumi
The path is made in the walking of it.
- Zhuangzi
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Nets exist because of fish, when the fish is caught you forget the net
Words exist because of meanings, when the meaning is caught you forget the word
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? I'd like to have a word with him.
- Zhuangzi, Chapter 26
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See! The Lord Jesus is our mirror: Open your eyes! Look into it! Learn what your faces are like!
- Odes of Solomon, 13
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Show a miracle for yourselves: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
- Exodus 7:8–9
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Nothing is more original, more oneself than to be nourished by others; only one must be able to digest them.
- Paul Valéry
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So, I lay my head near yours, I share with you the celestial coat that the moon gives us.
- Marguerite Burnat-Provins, The Book for You, VII: Sleep, My Thought Cradles You (1907)
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One, has God spoken; two have I heard.
- Psalm 62:12
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Only the transcendent, the completely other, can be immanent without being modified by the becoming of that in which it dwells.
- Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
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Plato is not idealist as we say it. Plato's world is in no way a dream; on the contrary, hard like diamond and always the same. It is our life that is a dream; for our memories are pale shadows.
- Alain, Propos de littérature
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Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and the Spirit of Wisdom came to me.
I preferred her before sceptres and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
- Wisdom of Solomon 7:7-8
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They were what we are,
Dust, toys of the wind!
Fragile like men,
Feeble like the void!
- Alphonse de Lamartine, Pensée des morts
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Why soar in this direction, thither, where as yet all the suns of mankind have sunk? Will they perhaps one day say of us, that we too, steering westward, hoped to reach an India, — but that our fate was to shipwreck on infinity?
- Nietzsche, Dawn
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Rainer Maria Rilke: The First Sonnet to Orpheus
An original translation
There a tree rose. O pure transcendence!
O Orpheus sings! O high tree in the ear!
And all fell silent. Yet even in this silence
went forth a new beginning, beckoning, change.
Animals of stillness rushed out
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Poetry proper is never merely a higher mode of everyday language.
It is rather the reverse: everyday language is a forgotten and therefore used-up poem, from which there hardly resounds a call any longer.
- Martin Heidegger
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O men of Athens, I embrace and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you, and as long as I breathe and am able, I shall never cease loving wisdom [φιλοσοφῶν]...
- Plato, Apology of Socrates, 29d
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Everything that is intelligent has already been thought; one must only try to think it once more.
- Goethe
Thinkers are people who re-think and who think that what has been thought has never been thought enough.
- Paul Valéry, Tel quel
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Regretting what we love is a good, compared to living with what we hate.
- Jean de La Bruyère
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The Death of Saint Thomas Aquinas (750 years ago today):
"When Saint Thomas took to his sick bed in the cloister of the Cistercians of Fossanova alongside the Amaseno River of Campania, because the health of his stomach had been utterly broken from continuous studies, ...
On December 6th 1273, after the Feast of Saint Nicholas, Thomas Aquinas falls silent. He stops dictating the Summa Theologica, in the middle of the treatise on the Sacrament of Penance.
His scribe Reginald of Piperno asks him, troubled: “Father, how can you want to stop such a
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
- James Baldwin
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In comparison to music, all communication through words is shameless.
The word diminishes and makes stupid; the word depersonalizes, the word makes what is uncommon common.
- Nietzsche
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As the child and the artist play, so too plays the ever living fire, it builds up and tears down, in innocence—such is the game that the aeon plays with itself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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War is the place where life and death meet.
- Sun Tzu
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To exist as a human is to assist the divine.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
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The Word of God, also God, wills always and in all to actualize the mystery of his incarnation.
- Saint Maximus the Confessor, Ambiguum 7.22
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I deliver you the secret of secrets. Mirrors are the doors by which Death comes and goes.
- Jean Cocteau, Orpheus
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The great disease of the soul is godlessness.
- Hermes Trismegistus
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All things are not
Within the power of heavenly ones. That is,
Mortals first reach into the abyss. For so it turns
with them. The time is
Long, but what is true
Comes to pass.
- Friedrich Hölderlin, Mnemosyne
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The Lord said to Avram: Go toward yourself, out from your own will, from your birthplace, from your father's house, toward the will that I will make you see.
- Genesis 12:1
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I feel that a man may be happy in this world, and I know that this world is a world of imagination and vision. I see everything I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use
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Thinkers are people who re-think and who think that what has been thought has never been thought enough.
- Paul Valéry, Tel quel
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I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or mine own. Yet this is nothing: I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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For others are in danger of forgetting that those who happen to rightly hold fast to philosophy practice nothing but dying and having died.
- Plato, Phaedo, 64а4
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To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
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On December 6th 1273, after the Feast of Saint Nicholas, Thomas Aquinas falls silent. He stops dictating the Summa Theologica, in the middle of the treatise on the Sacrament of Penance.
His scribe Reginald of Piperno asks him, troubled: “Father, how can you want to stop such a
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Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2
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The dimensionless cannot be accumulated, yet its size is a thousand miles.
- Hui Shi 惠施
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Religion provides man with more than psychotherapy ever could, but it also demands more of him.
- Viktor Frankl, The Unconscious God. Psychotherapy and Theology
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Eyes, look your last.
Arms, take your last embrace.
And, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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The soft overcomes the hard as a gentle rider controls a galloping horse.
That without substance can penetrate where there is no space.
By these I know the benefit of nonaction.
Teaching without words, working without actions, nothing can compare with these.
- Tao Te Ching, 43
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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavour to do, he drowns - nicht wahr? ...
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Philosophy is not a certain knowledge, she is the vigilance that lets us not forget the source of all knowledge.
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Signs
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A true prayer is one in which we have directed the words to the nothingness of the word.
- Azriel of Gerona, Sod ha-Tefillah
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Just as all forms are visibly perishing by the haste of the workers, so too the feeling for form itself, the ear and eye for the melody of movements are perishing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Leisure and Idleness
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Walt Whitman: For Him I Sing
For him I sing,
I raise the present on the past,
(As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past,)
With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws,
To make himself by them the law unto himself.
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The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?
- Carl Jung
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Is there any reward for good other than good?
- Surah 55:60
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I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and became animal,
I died as animal and I was human.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die, to soar
With angels blest; but even from angelhood
I must pass on: all except God perishes.
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The modern man no longer has sacred space, a centre – a templum, a sacred mountain, an axis mundi. His existence is decentred, excentred, a-centred. He no longer has festivals, his time is homogenous like his space.
- Paul Ricœur, Manifestation and Proclamation, III: Toward
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