This is neither an adage nor a proverb but it blew my mind when I came upon it so I shall take the liberty of inserting it.
AH, BIRD IN
KYOTO
PINING FOR
KYOTO!
Basho
What a meditation or mantra that could be.
Adages & Proverbs
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Re: Adages & Proverbs
by Arcturus Descending » Wed Jun 06, 2018 3:11 pm
"Look closely. The beautiful may be small."
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
“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
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
“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
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Re: Adages & Proverbs
by Fixed Cross » Sat Jun 09, 2018 2:50 pm
Arcturus Descending wrote:Fixed Cross wrote:Truth is a one way street.
Jung said that truth needs the concert of many voices but we can see where that has led to.
Can your quote be true in light of the fact that those people going down that one-way (absolutist) street are not capable of *seeing* that there can be *another* way to go in seeking truth?
Its my own words, not a quote.
Read well: it doesn't say "there is only one truth".
It says "truth is a one way street".
The strong do what they can, the weak accept what they must.
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Re: Adages & Proverbs
by Arcturus Descending » Sat Jun 09, 2018 3:16 pm
Fixed Cross wrote:Arcturus Descending wrote:Fixed Cross wrote:Truth is a one way street.
Jung said that truth needs the concert of many voices but we can see where that has led to.
Can your quote be true in light of the fact that those people going down that one-way (absolutist) street are not capable of *seeing* that there can be *another* way to go in seeking truth?
Its my own words, not a quote.
Read well: it doesn't say "there is only one truth".
It says "truth is a one way street".
Can you please explain to me how truth can only be a a one-way street, FC?
"Look closely. The beautiful may be small."
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
“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
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
“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
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Re: Adages & Proverbs
by Fixed Cross » Sun Jun 17, 2018 3:01 pm
It is so obvious to me that I can't see what I have to explain. But Ill try.
Think of truth like time, or just reality. You can't turn back on truth.
Think of truth like time, or just reality. You can't turn back on truth.
The strong do what they can, the weak accept what they must.
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Re: Adages & Proverbs
by Arcturus Descending » Fri Jun 22, 2018 3:39 pm
Fixed Cross wrote:It is so obvious to me that I can't see what I have to explain. But Ill try.
Think of truth like time, or just reality. You can't turn back on truth.
Hmmm...but what have you actually said there, FC?
You can, in a sense, turn back on time. You can reflect on your past (time) to grow from it. You can discover that things which you believed in, things which you absolutely knew to be true, were not really true at all. You come to see this because you have grown and your perspective has changed.
The way that I look at it, you can "turn back on truth" because being that humans are imperfect and fallible, truth changes as we change. Then, sometime in the future, you might again turn back on time and discover that your previous truth or Truth was not altogether truth or even nearly truth.
Why do we need truth to be written in stone? How do we grow that way ~~ when we are so convinced of this or that or everything.
Can truth not be fluid?
"Look closely. The beautiful may be small."
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
“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
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
“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
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