Marc Gilbert-Widmann

Category: Philosophy

  • Quote of the Day 21 December 2013 – Relationships

    “Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait. Some of those conditions are within you, such as coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you: Just as plants need sun, water, and…

  • Quote of the Day 20 December 2013 – Happiness

    “If someone offered the chance to be happy for the rest of your life, everyone in the room will bid, but what they don’t know that the secret is nothing, they all have the power already with them. One of the most bizarre quirks of human beings is that they have always craved for happiness…

  • Quote of theDay 19 December 2013 – Self-Respect

    “One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill is literary, find no opportunity for the independent exercise of their talents, but have to hire themselves out to rich corporations directed by Philistines, who insist upon their producing what they themselves regard…

  • Words of the Day 16 December 2013 – Einstein

    “Professor: “You are a Christian aren’t you son?” Einstein: (as a student) “Yes sir.” “So you believe in God?” “Absolutely sir.” “Is God good”? “Sure.” “Is God all powerful?” “Yes.” “My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to heal others who are ill.…

  • Triple Quote Saturday – 14 December 2013- Imagine

    “Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and…

  • Narcissist Q/A – Friday the 13th – What Compels People to Take Advantage of Others?

    QUESTION: What Compels People to Take Advantage of Others? I don’t understand. ANSWER: The easy answer… people are bullies and sometimes people allow themselves to be taken advantage of for fear of loss. The complicated answer… Some people (narcissists) feel they are better, superior, in a different class and while it may manifest in many ways,…

  • Quote of the Day 9 December 2013 – Myself

    “Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I have to go on liking it at all points in time as an unthinking act of loyalty to who I am as a person, based solely on who I was as a person. To be loyal…

  • Quote of the Day 6 December 2013 – Connected

    “We’re all pieces of the same ever-changing puzzle; some connected for mere seconds, some connected for life, some connected through knowledge, some through belief, some connected through wisdom, some through Love, and some connected with no explanation at all. Yet, as spiritual beings having a human experience, we’re all here for the sensations this reality…

  • Quote of the Day 5 December 2013 – Flower

    “I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this…

  • Quote of the Day 4 December 2013 – Opponent

    “I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in…