Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.
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John Marmysz
Loss of hope is root of distress.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
Distress is fearful gloom.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest souls have survived deep distress and mental-ill health.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.
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Stephen King
More Quotes By Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on...
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." (1794)]
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
