Sublime

conundrum (jam) paradox (puzzle) disconcerting (bad) salient (on-point) conclave (meeting) vicissitude (change) quintessential (classic) breadth (range) verisimilitude (real) elucidate (explain)

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Our doubts tend to be about whether we can get the satisfactions that we seek, not about the nature of these satisfactions.

Doubts are, or at least can be, good things. Although Unamuno was quite prepared to doubt reason, it worries me that it never seemed to occur to him to doubt his doubts.

These refer to projections and views of one’s own realm without realizing they are perceptions of one’s own mind. Due to their obliviousness, Mahamati, such foolish people maintain dualistic views and doctrines of existence and nonexistence as their self-existent, higher truth.

Os metafísicos de Tlön não buscam a verdade nem sequer a verossimilhança: buscam o assombro.

Kohelet’s use of contradictions may in itself present a message: human beings may strive for consistency but will always be riddled with imperfections and ambiguities. Accepting this can minimize frustrations, not only with Kohelet, but also with the world, others around us, and within ourselves.