Viewing Reality Through an Impressionistic Eye
"Nature here sets, even to the universal genius, a limit which it cannot pass, and truth will make martyrs so long as philosophy still holds it to…
"Nature here sets, even to the universal genius, a limit which it cannot pass, and truth will make martyrs so long as philosophy still holds it to…
"I have said, in the first volume of my Gifford Lectures, The Mystery of Being, that we are living in a world which seems to be founded…
Adagio – slow and stately (literally, “at ease.”) And if truth is one of the ultimate values, it seems strange that no one seems to know what…
This life’s dim windows of the soul Distorts the Heavens from pole to pole, And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, no through,…
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the Saints and God. - Yes; but is it not to…
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. - T.S. Eliot Burnt Norton[1] Prologue In…
Substantial Form and Existential Reflection The most profound discovery of ancient Greek philosophers and by implication Western civilization is the discovery of form. Plato’s thought is a…
"There are no deserts. There are no more islands. Yet there is a need for them. In order to understand the world, one has to turn away…
When some people hear the words philosophy, philosophize and philosopher their immediate impression is that of an abstract discipline that is often also technical in makeup. These…
From his humble childhood in Aachen, Germany, Mies van der Rohe learned to appreciate and respect the materials that the architect has to work with. His father…
Happiness can only be experienced by individuals. While happiness can affect groups of people, its basic quality as a human emotion springs from a person's engagement with…
In Das Wesen des Christentums (The Essence of Christianity), Ludwig Feuerbach's 1841 scathing criticism of Christianity, the German anthropologist pontificates on the nature of divinity by attributing…
Alfred North Whitehead, a formidable philosopher in his own right, captured the essence and vision of Plato's philosophy when he wrote in Process and Reality: An Essay…