Author of quotes: Mikhail Epstein



The vocation of philosophy is to expand the area of feelings with thoughts. So that love, and joy, and hope, and pain, and sorrow are experienced large, universally, not being exhausted by everyday situations. And so that at the top of these experiences new feelings are born, for which there are still no concepts in the language, because in ordinary situations these feelings are rarely manifested.
№ 407922   Added MegaMozg 02-12-2020 / 06:03
Creative man is not man enough for a simple woman, a creative woman isn't a woman for a simple man. <...>
A man becomes a woman is in ecstasy, the heat of heightened receptivity and intuition - that is, in all States, friends, simple, loving, jealous women. A woman becomes a man - sober, strict, business-like, incapable of fever and delirium, aged, skeptical, mocking - so how usually are men. Creativity, thus, restores the person of the same-sex condition in a holistic, bisexual.
№ 231428   Added MegaMozg 16-01-2017 / 18:09
Every person is, in fact, multicellular, a variety of "I" which are among themselves in relationship of a dispute, competition, cooperation.
№ 186923   Added MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 12:14
Personality - the ability itself, which is not exhausted by any self-realization.
№ 54208   Added MegaMozg 03-01-2017 / 09:56