Is there a quote that appreciably changed your perspective?

By dying daily, I have to come to be.

Theodore Rothke



Death is a mundane topic in discussions leading to metaphysical uncertainty. So then,

In the idea that yesterday happened only in the event that it was that, that I took so well to be forgotten easily, as if moving finitely made a hypocrite of the adage, in that while wisdom is full of wiles or that a belief is hinged with science, unto a smile and brevity until the day when the morning reckons, all is well again, the no sense of a daily death of these ideas is startled bemusement of wondering how Husserl contended with the Non Euclidean Geometry...Is there a quote that appreciably changed your perspective?
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.



Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.



Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.



Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.



Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."



--Buddha



Love and blessings

Don
my favourite little "saying" is this



The three essentials to happiness are

* something to DO

* something to LOVE

and

* something to HOPE FOR



reminding myself of that helps me find focus and see the track in the woods!Is there a quote that appreciably changed your perspective?
This quote left me thinking more about the things I say before I open my mouth.

"Before speaking, ask, Is it necessary? Is it true? Is it kind? Is it edifying? If not keep it to yourself."
Well there's a lot of quotes, that I'd like to share... of life, death, love... and desires... that practically took my life for a 180 degree spin, and back again...



But eventually, all starts with birth... and ends with death... a race with time... which makes death... more of a... really weird and exciting dance partner... rather than a mundane topic...



A tune... a beat... represents time... and so you go on... each trying to overtake the other... but that doesn't mean, there's always a new tune.. all the time... you do retrace steps... improvise something of the past... learn new steps... and eventually retreat, once the stage curtains start lowering nearby... or maybe exit dramatically, before time, when the music is cut short...



A performance worthy of applause... one that doesn't exactly die as the moment passes... instead it is entombed... in immortality...



Some say... when a word is said... it is dead... but I believe it starts to live from that moment on...



-Inspired by Emily Dickinson.



Cheers!!!Is there a quote that appreciably changed your perspective?
Yes.

I live by:





Faith will move mountains.
"The will to truth which will still tempt us to many a venture, that famous truthfulness of which all philosophers so far have spoken with respect - what question has this will to truth not laid before us! What strange, wicked, questionable questions! That is a long story even now - and yet it seems as if it had scarcely begun. Is it any wonder that we should finally become suspicious, lose patience, and turn away impatiently? that we should finally learn from this Sphinx to ask questions, too? /Who/ is it really that puts questions to us here? /What/ in us really wants 'truth'? Indeed we came to a long halt at the question about the cause of this will - until we finally came to a complete stop before a still more basic question. We asked about the /value/ of this will. Suppose we want truth: /why not rather/ untruth? and uncertainty? even ignorance? The problem of the value of truth came before us - or was it we who came before the problem? Who of us is Oedipus here? Who the Sphinx? It is a rendezvous, it seems, of questions and question marks. And though it scarcely seems credible, it finally almost seems to us as if the problem had never even been put so far - as if we were the first to see it, fix it with our eyes, and /risk/ it. For it does involve a risk, and perhaps there is none that is greater."



This, for those who do not recognize it, is the first aphorism of Beyond Good and Evil - the first book I ever read of Nietzsche's. And really, looking back upon my quest to understand and embrace his brilliance, this quote is where it first started. I will eternally be indebted to it. Without reading these words, it's doubtful I would have even found philosophy, or even more horrific, Nietzsche.