Reflections

'What matters our creative endless toil,
when at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?'
-Mephistopheles 'Goethe's Faust'



We are a spark from the great fire that was ignited many billions of years ago.
-Big bang Theory.

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, this book took me so long before I actually finished reading it, but it has been good and bad, good because I was able to understand the book properly (I still have to read it, to thoroughly understand it.)Bad because the book is now dilapilated. (poor thing, what more after I read it several more times.)

'Life is both sad and solemn, we are let into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other-- and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.'

It is now one of my favorite books, my love for philosophy was rekindled, I was overwhelmed once more. There are dull moments in the book too because it sometimes feels like a textbook and most lectures they tackle though simplefied are still hard for me to digest and understand because of its deep meaning.

'History is necessary for the enlightenment of man and the destruction of evil.'

I have always been fascinated with history and it's amazing to look at it in the birds eye view of philosophy, how many discoveries are there, that rose from the most basic and vital questions such as who am I and where did I come from? Man had tried to answer these very questions from the early times since Socrates in Athens (maybe even earlier than that) till this very day.

'If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it.'

With this book I met new great thinkers or philosophers, like Immanuel Kant, Kierkegaard, I didn't even know that Sigmund Freud is a philosopher too, I only heard of his psychoanalyses in my general psychology class. I almost got converted to romanticism's philosophical theory too.

'Tired of the eternal efforts to fight our way through raw matter, we chose another way and sought to embrace the infinite. We went inside ourselves and created a new world.'

Plato made me salute him when he said that men and women are equal, despite his mentor socrates believing otherwise.
The empericist are cool too, and I also learned that the famous Latin line 'carpe diem' was widely used by philosophers in Baroque period.

'So 'to be or not to be' is not the whole question. The question is also who we are. Are we really human beings of flesh and blood? Does our world consist of real things-- or are we encircled by the mind? -Empericist

Even Karl Marx is a philosopher and with his in-depth studies and evidences, no matter how cruel I find his theories they are still correct withouth my prejudice getting in the way, just the right perspective is needed.

'Corgito ergo sum'
'I think therefore I am'

Amongst all the philosophers and philosopical theories they have created, I still haven't made up my mind to whom do I agree, while reading all the theories, I end up concluding that they all have concept that I find myself agreeing to, but intertwined with those theories are the axioms that I disagree too. So I think that with much work, if these theories are balanced in one lesser complex concept then I would have find the theory that is best fitted for me, but of course it cannot only fit for me, because by then it won't be applied universally.

...such stuff as dreams are made on...

I do believe that it is innate in man to ask questions that is why I want to continue my philosophical journey so as to articulate my findings of myself, the world and everything around me comfortably and with more accurate hypothesis. Like any other philosopher such as descartes I have to start from scratch to find where exactly I stand, I also do know that most of my questions have been asked by people far more intelligent than I am, for thousands of years but I would still continue to ask them for philosophers never gives up and I do think that the journey is most enjoyable, for whatever answer I would come across I know it would be overwhelming, disappointing scary and enlightening at the same time and if I let this go and doesn't continue with this journey i would be sure to feel incomplete forever and that is just unacceptable.

'We too are stardust'

There are growing questions that I must ask, so my journey starts here.



'When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way to ourselves.'