Miguel
Miguel
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth23 October 1985
CountryUnited States of America
philosophy men pedants
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.
men church temples
The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
art philosophy ideas
Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
ideas people looks
Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
philosophy science technology
Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
order theology
I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.
isolation worst counselor
Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
pessimism said protest
The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
men talking heaven
Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?
optimistic ideas optimism
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
believe too-much littles
None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.
pain fall heart
He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.
god doe martyr
Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
faith wish may
Faith is, before all and above all, wishing God may exist.