Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt. Immanuel Kant
And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. Aristotle
If mortal life can offer you anything better than justice and truth, self-control and courage - that is, peace of mind in the evident conformity of your actions to the laws of reason, and peace of mind under the visitations of a destiny you cannot control - if, I say, you can discern any higher ideal, why, turn to it with your whole soul, and rejoice in the prize you have found. Marcus Aurelius
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only. Henry Miller
All that I know I learned after I was thirty. Georges Clemenceau
when i see the sea once more
will the sea have seen or not seen me?
why do the waves ask me
the same questions I ask them?
and why do they strike the rock
with so much wasted passing?
don't they get tired of repeating
their declaration to the sand?
Pablo Neruda
will the sea have seen or not seen me?
why do the waves ask me
the same questions I ask them?
and why do they strike the rock
with so much wasted passing?
don't they get tired of repeating
their declaration to the sand?
Pablo Neruda