Philosopher Quotes

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.
The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
Nothing exists except through language.
The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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