Sublime
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Culture depends for its very existence on leisure, and leisure, in its turn, is not possible unless it has a durable and consequently living link with the cultus, with divine worship.
Josef Pieper • Leisure: The Basis of Culture
to enrich their conceptual life with new ways of understanding.
Rudolf Steiner • Guidance in Esoteric Training
No system of thought can contain the fullness of human experience.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
In this effort, the literary classics will ultimately be firmer and more useful guides than any social science methodology for those who have not had a personal experience with war and death. - Robert Kaplan
real joy consists of knowing that human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of beeches in a breeze. As certain as weather coming from the west, the things people know for sure will change. There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
And the reason simply is that these philosophers, like so many modern philosophers, do not possess the patience to see what they are taking for granted.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
On est libre de définir la philosophie comme on veut, de choisir la philosophie que l’on veut, d’inventer, si on le peut, la philosophie que l’on croit valable. Mais si on reste fidèle à la définition antique, comme l’étaient encore Descartes ou Spinoza, pour qui la philosophie était « l’exercice de la sagesse », si l’on pense qu’il est essentiel a
... See morePierre Hadot • Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique (Bibliothèque de l'Evolution de l'Humanité) (French Edition)
Hemingway described his process in similar terms: acquiring rich experiences, then retreating to cogitate and write about them.