Happiness.

"Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops."c- Goethe.

Why Worry.

Such sweet song..

Tolerace.

I dont know how to tolerate myself.

Cycle of life.

Lost myself in search of someone,then i lost that someone and found myself again.

Isolation.

I always thought that nothing can break the walls of isolation which i have built around me for quite a while.But i was so wrong,isolation exists in isolation one shares it and it starts to evaporate.:D

Such a life.

A life that takes away everything you love is still good enough to show you everything you love.:D

Immortality .

Immortality is a brilliant work of fiction without an end.:D

Life is a bittersweet symphony.

Bitter Sweet Symphony - The verve

Discipline and creativity.

Friend: Why are you so indisciplined,any reasons?
Qasim :I think too much of discipline kills creativity.

:)

Learning to live alone.

I have learned to live alone,in others words i have learned to die every moment.

Phenomenology.

Edmand Husserl laid the foundations of Phenoumenalogy that played a vital role in the later development of existentialism through the writings of Martin Heidegger.
Husserl wanted to laid down rock solid foundations for philosophy ,so he revived the Cartesian tradition.He was of the view that for each of us there is one thing which is indubitably certain and that is our own 'conscious awareness'.But unlike Descarte,Husserl didn't consider conciousness as something seperate from its object.As we analyse ,we will come to a conclusion that conciousness has to be concious of 'something',be it its own awareness or a table infront of us.It is very difficult for us to distinguish states of conciousness and objects of our conciousness.In otherwards conciousness is always directed to towards its obect.Husserl uses the word intentionality to describe this directedness.Regarding the existence of external objects ,Husserl maintained a very unique view.Skeptics down the ages have denied the existence of external objects,but Husserl was of the view that external objects indubitable exist as objects of our conciousness,however it is irrelevant what other charecteristics they may have or lack.

Rumi on self-esteem.

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.- Rumi

Layla

What'll you do when you get lonely
And no one's waiting by your side?

You've been running and hiding much too long.
You know it's just your foolish pride


I tried to give you consolation
When your old man had let you down.
Like a fool, I fell in love with you,
Turned my whole world upside down


.Let's make the best of the situation
Before I finally go insane.
Please don't say we'll never find a way
And tell me all my love's in vain

Intellect v heart

An intellect is led to insanity when it realizes the fact that it can break a heart but can never defeat it.

Artist.

'No artist tolerates reality'. Nietzsche


Art is a sacred lie - Iqbal

Hume's skepticism.

It is known to every student of philosophy that the father of skeptecism David Hume, rejected the very basis of Cartesian Cogito and replaced it with Bundle theory.He was of the view that any impression or complex idea for which there is no corresponding object in external reality must be put to flames.My objection to it is that ,Hume seems to presuppose external reality(a complex idea) because the idea of external reality is implied in sensation.

My problem with Realists have always been that they think that reality is something self-evident when it is the most hardest things to achieve.But its even more annoying that a skeptic like Hume presupposes sensations to achieve systematic conclusions.

Love impulse

'The love impulse in men very frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict.’ - Dr Lehman from Bringing up baby

Complaint

There is a change--and I am poor;
Your love hath been, nor long ago,
A fountain at my fond heart's door,
Whose only business was to flow;
And flow it did; not taking heed
Of its own bounty, or my need.

What happy moments did I count!
Blest was I then all bliss above!
Now, for that consecrated fount
Of murmuring, sparkling, living love,
What have I? Shall I dare to tell?
A comfortless and hidden well.

A well of love--it may be deep--
I trust it is,--and never dry:
What matter? If the waters sleep
In silence and obscurity.--
Such change, and at the very door
Of my fond heart, hath made me poor.

William Wordsworth

Dillema.

Its immoral to talk of morals these days.

Shattered God.

"Rather than cope with the unbearable loneliness of their condition men will continue to seek their shattered God, and for His sake they will love the very serpents that dwell among His ruins."- Fredrich Nietzsche

Melancholy..

Strange are my ways...

My life has gone topsy-turvy ,and still i think its going fine.
I've started feeling spiritual consolation in heresies,happiness in unhappiness,comfort in loneliness,enjoyment in misery,certainity in uncertainity,hatred and jeolousy in love,humanism in narcissism,and sympathy for the devil.

So that person was right to say , 'strange are my ways'........:D

Literary exercise.

Generally ,Love is just a literary exercise for poets.

complain

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
Michel de Montaigne

"To See a World..."

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.


William Blake

Woody Allen's problem with metaphysics.

"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me."- Woody Allen


lol

Love is life.

Love is just like life,once you are in it there is noway out except death.:D

Everyone talks....

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Reverence !

People generally have reverence for mysticism just because they don't understand it.

The Fountainhead (Review)

The Fountainhead
The selfishness of the noblesoul.





Rabindranath Tagore once wrote that , 'How strange it is that the MAN is noble but the MEN are evil?'. Ayn Rand (1905-82),the writer of The Fountainhead is also an exponent of such a philosophy.She believes in the value of human self above all else and presents her systemetic philosophy of 'Objectivism' in the guise of imaginative literature.The Fountainhead was first written in 1943 and brought fame and money to Rand.In Ayn Rand's own words the very purpose of writing this novel was to show that ' man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress '.The Founatainhead demonstrates the importance of man's struggle to free himself from the tyranny of collective society.So,this book is an inspiration for those who believe in the cause of Individualism.
As a piece of literature this novel has to be judged on two grounds,firstly as a work of fiction and secondly as a work of philosophy.The story revolves around Howard Roark,a self-centered architect whose integrity is as unyiielding as the granite of the buildings he creates.Its about his violent battle against the standards,norms and conventions of the society.He knows only one way to live and that is to live for himself.Being a man of integrity he neither rules nor obey.He creates his own values and sets his own standards.The novel also contains the explosive love affair between Roark and Dominique Francon,a perfect woman for a egotist like Roark.She loves Roark passionately yet struggles to defeat him. Set against Roark is Peter Keating ,who is also an architect.He lacks Roark's arrogance and egoism.He is a dishonest man who cares more about the public opinion and never shy away from coping Roark's work and present it as his own.For him his work is a mean to an end (money),in contrast Roark considers his creative work as an end in itself.
As a work of philosophy ,the novel presents Rand's own views about the ancient debate i.e, 'Individual vs Collective' or to put it simple 'MAN v MEN'.She rejects altruism as a moral philosophy and presents it as an evil in the form of Ellswort Toohey,the villian of the novel.Being a proponent of altruism ,Toohey regards the interst of the masses above the interest of the individual.Rand presents Roark as a man who has the potential to be an ideal man and he himself is aware of this fact.Whereas,Toohey recognises his limitations and hates anysort of superior creative abilities in others.He is a person of modest talent,and for him modesty is pure honesty .But for an egotist like Roark with superior qualities ,modesty is mere hypocrisy.He regards altruism as the greatest evil because how can a man sacrifice his integrity,his vision,his own truth and ideals?He argues that such an act of humiility should be despised rather than called 'pure virtue'.Toohey preaches that if the world doesn't agree with you,you must agree with the world.Roark preaches that if the world doesn't agree with you,rise against it.
The Fountainhead presents man as a heroic being,with his own happiness as the moral purpose of life and productive achievement as the noblest activity .However critics have always regarded Roark as Rand's modified version of Nietzschean Ubermensch(Overman).Like Ubermensch,Rand's ideal man (Howard Roark) is also indifferent towards the society and regards creative art as the noblest of all activities.Her ideal man has a selfish desire to express his own truth.He walks the long and winding road of life with nothing but his own vision.He is selfish but doesn't demand fame ,respect or recognition because in Nietzsche's words 'the noble soul has reverence for itself'.
I must conclude my review with the words of Fredrick Nietzsche that adresses the prime question of the novel that why every great innovater ,creator or reformer is denounced by the society of his time.He writes ,'During the longest period of the human past nothing was more terrible than to feel that one stood by oneself. To be alone, to experience things by oneself, neither to obey nor to rule, to be an individual—that was not a pleasure but a punishment; one was sentenced to "individuality." Such was the fate of Howard Roark ,he was sentenced to individuality.So,i'll highly recommend this book to all those who want to be themselves.

Sound of silence.

At times the sound of someone's silence is open to more interpertations than the spoken word.

Forgiving people.

If only i could forget as quickly as i can forgive.

Suicide.

Suicide is man's way of saying to God, "You can't fire me! I quit!" - Bill Maher


haha!

Nightmare.

Life itself becomes a nightmare when one stops dreaming.

Sukiyaki

____Japanese____
Ue o muite arukoo
Namida ga kobore nai yoo ni
Omoidasu haru no hi
Hitoribotchi no yoru
Ue o muite arukoo
Nijinda hoshi o kazoete
Omoidasu natsu no hi
Hitoribotchi no yoru
Shiawase wa kumo no ue ni
Shiawase wa sora no ue ni
Ue o muite arukoo
Namida ga kobore nai yoo ni
Nakinagara aruku
Hitoribotchi no yoru(whistling)
Omoidasu aki no hi
Hitoribotchi no yoru
Kanashimi wa hoshi no kage ni
Kanashimi wa tsuki no kage ni
Ue o muite arukoo
Namida ga kobore nai yoo ni
Nakinagara aruku
Hitoribotchi no yoru(whistling)


___ENGLISH____
I look up when I walk
So the tears won't fall
Remembering those happy spring days
But tonight I'm all alone

I look up when I walk
Counting the stars with tearful eyes
Remembering those happy summer days
But tonight I'm all alone
Happiness lies beyond the clouds
Happiness lies above the sky
I look up when I walk
So the tears won't fall
Though my heart is filled with sorrow
*Hitoribotchi no yoru
For tonight I'm all alone(whistling)
Remembering those happy autumn days
But tonight I'm all alone
Sadness hides in the shadow of the stars
Sadness lurks in the shadow of the moon
I look up when I walk
So the tears won't fall
Though my heart is filled with sorrow
*For tonight I'm all alone(whistling)

17th century scientific revolution..

Science to me is a product of different societies,western science itself had gone under many transformations until 17th century scientific revolution.What was different in that revolution that stoped any further changes in the paradigm of science itself?
The answer is quite complex but perhaps the best possible answer to me is that the 17th century scientific revolution came up with the idea that nature was pure quantity and a machine to be treated mathematically.That idea is the cornerstone of the secularization of science and the cutting of the hand of God from studing nature.I personally(or naively) believe that there should be a change in the paradigm of science itself to open up the new possible ways of studing nature.

Secret love.

How often one misunderstands secret love as being true love.

Tragedy.

How much wrong could i have been when i thought that person understood my silence when infact he never even understood my words.And how heart broken did i feel when i thought that person can read my eyes ,when infact he never looked into my eyes.

Wittgenstein finds repose.

Limitations.

Sometimes recognising ones limitations is the only thing one can achieve.

The true morality.

The only true morality in a cruel world is 'chance',totally unbaised and totally unfair - Two face



The Dark Knight.

Simpsons and Philosophers.

I want Awais to identify them,quite an easy job for him.:D

Loneliness Vs. Solitude

“Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.”


Paul Tillich.

Tauheed!

Tauheed (Unity of God) tu yeh hei ke khudaa hasher key din keh dey
Yeh banda khefaa dono jehaan sei marey liye hey

(Muhammed Ali Johar)

Imitation.

Pretence.

Its strange how easily man becomes a a victim to his own pretences.And when he realizes his own victimisation ,he represses that feeling and utmosltly try to live in a state of denial in the first stage,in the second stage he gets annoyed tries everything to get rid of his own pretences but fails,in the third and final stage he just laughs at his own pretences because these are the secret little ways of tolerating ones aloneness(Nietzsche's words).

Till then i walk alone.

No matter how pessimist a person is,one cant totally get rid of the hope.Even in the worst of times man keeps pushing the deadbody of hope ,which is nothing but a moral obligation as G.B.Shaw put it.


I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know were it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone
I walk this empty street On the Boulevard of broken dreams
Were the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone

I walk alone I walk alone
I walk alone and I walk a



My shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Till then I'll walk alone



Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

Unconditional Surrender.

Mysticism is a kind of weakness,its not at all a courageous act .Any kind of mysticism that demands seclusion,passive abstract thinking and inaction is surely a delusion.As Rumi said that how can an ever active God demands such a faith which is devoid of action.I think that is where Rumi is different from other mystics,he compels man to act.Unlike his other contemporary mystics who find peace in seclusion,Rumi wants man to stand for himself and act in such a way that not only establishes his reltion to God but also universe and humanity.

Nietzsche sums up the traditional mysticism in one line,he says,

"People think mystic truths are deep ,when they are only superficial'.


All in all, such a mysticism is an unconditional surrender infront of the harsh realities of life,its just like closing ones eyes and running away from life.So,beware of suck dark mysticism.

Conversations with History: John R. Searle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giwXG3QYWQA

Philosophy is dead.

'Philosophy is dead ,philosophy remains dead and we have killed philosophy',says the postmodern 'Madman'. :D

I Will.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGnNQM_9q-w

Equality.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact - Honore de Balzac.

Lies.

At times its better to speak a white lie because it gives us an oppurtunity to speak a greater truth at a later stage.

Defining Love.

Nomatter how much we explain and describe love
When we are actually in love,we are ashmed of our words.


Rumi from 'Description of Love'.

Existentialism and Mysticism.

Existentialism is unorganised philosophy,whereas mysticism is unorganised existentialism.:D

Knowledge and Judgements.

Knowledge makes us more impatient about getting more kowledge,the hunger increases with every passing day.But ironically it develops patience in us when it comes to be judgemental.Whereas an ignorant person waits for knowledge to come to him and is never reluctant of passing out judgements.

Nomad Prayer.

Beautiful!

Time as teacher.

Time is the best teacher ,it can even teach us against our will.

Abyss of human mind.

The whole of reality losses itself in the abyss of human mind.

Height of cleverness.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it - La Rouchefoucuald

Weak and strong.

The weak believer losses himself in God,whereas the strong finds it in himself.- Iqbal


Secrets of the Self.

Sensitivity of noble soul.

The most beautiful thing about a noble soul is how he tries to conceal his sensitive nature infront of loved ones.

Self-deception.

Behlaaye jab dil na behley,
tu aesey behlayein
Ghum hi tu hei pyaar ki dulaat,
Yeh keh ker samajhayein.



Hum pyaar mein jalnei waloon ko- Lata

Misery.

Misery ends as soon as one starts enjoying it.

Novelty.

How does it feel when novelty vanishes from ones life?

Constant love.

There is no such thing as constant love,either we are loving more or loving less - Thomas Hardy.

Imagination.

It is so easy to freely imagine but so difficult to freely 'will'.

Lonelyness.

The greater is the number of people around a noble soul,the greater is his loneliness.

Psychologists and Poets.

Psychologist swims ,whereas the poet dives - Iqbal

Way to madness.

The sane person always realizes the fact that he is on his way to madness.Its madness that defines sanity.

Reality.

I can't get rid of reality because i'm reality.

The problem of love.

The problem of love is that it never truely let itself to be understood by the lover.

Praying and worshiping.

It was so easy to relinquesh worshiping for me,but how can i abandon praying?
Praying for me is desiring (hoping),and there is no easy way to renounce the 'will'.

Skeptecism.

'Too much knowledge leads to skeptecism',said Goethe but he forgot to add that 'too much skeptecism leads to nihilism i.e,the impossibility of knowledge'.

The roots of Narcissism.

The more we find ourselves at the mercy of circumstances,the more we indulge in self-pity.The more one indulges in self-pity the more one admires oneself .You see how this silly 'self-romance' eventually leads to narcissism.

The gateway of time.

The present,the past and the future all have to pass through the gateway of time that is 'Now'.
Time views itself in 'eternal now'.

Isn't it a pity !

Isn't it a pityNow,
isn't it a shame
How we break each other's hearts
And cause each other pain
How we take each other's love
Without thinking anymore
Forgetting to give back
Isn't it a pity

Some things take so long
But how do I explain
When not too many people
Can see we're all the same
And because of all their tears
Their eyes can't hope to see
The beauty that surrounds them
Isn't it a pity


George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity

Tagore and death of God.

In death, many becomes ONE
In life,one becomes Many
Religion will be ONE
with the death of God.



Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds.

Men and Man.

How strange it is that Man is noble but Men are cruel and Man reaches the culmination of intellect but Men define stupidity.

Creative decadence.

What is the first sign of intellectual decadence?
The realization of the fact that whatever one wants to say has already been said by someone else,so what should one do to avoid it?
The only way to avoid it is to say same things in a different way,just like one sees the same old sun with same eyes yet find something new in it .

My Life.

Here are few facts about me.

1)I am an introvert but that doesn't mean i delibrately want to bore people around me and can't talk.

2)I am not a pessimist but laugh at those who think they are happy,thats my way of stealing happiness and enjoying my misery while it lasts.

3)I don't think about the past much because even the fond memories cause more pain when seen in retrospect.

4)I believe there is a God,but i dont have a choice.(Call it bad faith,i'll not mind)

5)I love old and classic movies,you can ask about any old movie from me.

6)I hate nationalism of any sort.

7)Despite all the criticism i believe in unrequited love,it appeared a silly idea until happened to me.The motivation comes from the fact that,'no matter how much you love me,i love you more'.

8)I love junk food.

Wish.

Sometimes i wish i can turn inside outward ,so that the world can see the real me.

But i'm not the only one.

magine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one



Imagine -Lennon

A question on stupidy.

One of my friend asked this question
Q- Are we born stupid or we chose to be stupid?

Zain's answer was,

"if the choice is there to be made in the first place, then it is a choice indeed some become stupid because of the choices of others".

My answer was,
'The choice is there to be made,we chose to be stupid but remain unaware of the fact that we are stupid,its just the converse of the more you know the more you reallize how much you don't know'.

Mother.

With every passing day my parents ,specially my mother appear more innocent to me .Whenever she advises me i feel a strange kind of happiness.The feeling that she is only 'stating the obvious' in the guise of advice did irritate me initially but at the same time developed a feeling in me that she is me child rather than mother and i'm listening to her stuff just like she listened to me for hours and hours when i was a kid.
Whenever i feel depress i go to my mother and speak my heart out,i tell her that i'm afraid of society.I tell her that most of the people appear machines to me and they don't seem to attract me anymore.Even when i'm among my friends and they laugh and enjoy i feel myself alone ,but i never give an impression that how different i'm from them .After listening all this stuff,my mom tries all her optimistic Pyschological 'Totkey' on me.She also goes on to curse our relatives and family friends that they might have tried black magic on me. :P
Seeing her making all these futile efforts for me,makes me laugh and i enjoy the look of a child on her face.And with that feeling all my depression whithers away.Who needs 'talking cure' of Joseph Breuer when you have innocent perents at home.:D

Pessimist's Wager.

Everybody must have heard about pascal's wager.I have come up with the idea of Pessimist's wager.The distinction has to be made here between atheistic pessimism and theistic pessimism.

Q-What does death mean to a non-believer pessimist?
Ans.End of misery

Q- What does death mean to pessimist believer?
Ans.Beginning of a new misery.(eternal damnation)


So,being pessimist is bad but it can get worse.Better chose the right cards....:P

Shy.

Melisa:Why are you so shy?
Me:Because i'm aware of my limitations .

Lies.

Life changes radically,when one finds it impossible to lie to oneself.

Hero

The world is a stage and everyone plays his part ,said Shakespeare.But everyone consciously or unconsciously thinks of himself as hero of this play(life).I wonder if there is anyone who considers himself the villian of this play.

Why curse God?

Oh my friends why curse god for poor fate,instead curse such a concept of 'fate'.There is something fundamentaly wrong with this concept of fate,it doesn't even spare God.Such a fate would have made God proclaim,

'God is condemned to be God'. :)

So,better change your concept of fate.

Neo-Leibnizian Theory of space.

Breaking all barriers of common sense Leibniz proclaimed that there was no such thing as space as a distinct entity.He postulated that there is no such thing as 'space' and only physical objects existed.He persistently criticised absolute space of Newton and held space and time to be relative(Not in the sense Einstein did) .Such a view appears contrary to common sense but philosophers never care much about common sense.Russell rightly called it 'mataphysics of savages'.

To put it simply,Leibniz was of the view that there was no such thing as space,only physical things exist in what we call 'space' but space doesn't exist as a distinct further kind of thing which contains objects.


There is an argument in favour of this theory from english grammar.Consider these two sentences,

1-There is water between chair and wall.
2-There is space between chair and wall.

From grammatical point of view these arguments are identical but there is something profoundly different from a logical point of view.The concept water and space differ remarkably from a logical view.The second sentence can be parapharased in this way,

3-There is nothing between the chair and wall,and chair isn't touching the wall.


In this sentence the talk of space has dropped altogether ,no such paraphrase is possible for sentence number 1.


Although this is all metaphysics but it shows the great rational mind of Leibniz ,no wonder Russell regarded him as having a great mind.

Nihilistic epistemology.

Epitemology is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, in particular its foundations, scope, and validity.The possibility of knowledge can't be denied becuase denial itself implies knowledge.But isn't it the case that the affirmation or denial of knowledge is based on a presumption called 'knowledge'.

All my unhappiness.

All my unhappiness has to do something with uncertainity of today , certainity of yesterday and bleak chance for tommorow's redemption.

Dreadful knowledge of truth.

How dreadful knowledge of truth can be,when there is no help in truth - Sophocles

There is so much in this little statement ,now read this statement in conjunction with this statement of Goethe.


I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Broken heart and God.

The great pantheist sufi Bulley Shah once said,

"Tear down the mosque and the temple;break everything in sight but do not break persons heart it is there that God resides".

I'll disagree with Bulley Shah,i believe broken heart is the divine adobe.John Lennon was probably right when he said 'God is a concept by which we measure our pain.'

Where is my knowledge leading me?

It seems like all my knowledge,all futile efforts are gradually making me numb,comfortably numb.

Hegel's mysticism and Nature of Geist.

G.W.Hegel the great German idealist who once dominated the academic philosophy of europe has been vigorously opposed since the arrival of analytical philosophy.His abstract and obscure philosophy may not attract the modern day student of philosophy.But i as one realy appreciate Hegel's mystical doctrine that was radically modified by young hegelians and then Marx himself.
Everybody is aware of Hegel;s dialectic method and how it works to reach absolute.Hegels philosophy in a nutshell can be described as 'Infinite becoming finite and then again becoming infinite through self evolving synthesis'.
Hegel described the nature of Geist in his famous and least obscure work called 'Philosophy of History'.He says that to understand the essence of something one needs to look for its opposite,the opposite of spirit is matter.The essence of matter is Gravity,so the essence of spirit is freedom.Today his philosophy appears as a 'mystical poetry' rather than formal philosophy.

Boat of age.

'We are riding the boat of age ,Nay not riding it but sitting on board without control' - Azad


Jahaz-e-umer-e-rewaan per sewar bethey hein
Sewaar khaak hein beekhtiar bethein hein

Fichte's critique of Kant.

Fichte without a shadow doubt was the father of German Nationalism .His contribution to German Idealism is not to be ignored.He was a follower of Kant,but modified his doctrine of Thing-in-itself.According to Kant,phenomena is caused by Thing-in-itself (Noumena),we can think of noumena but can never comprehend it.Fichte found incoherence in Kant's doctrine ,according to Kant ,Cause (Law of Causality) belongs to the world of phenoumena and has nothing to do with Noumena.Then how is it that our view of the world (Phenoumena) is caused by Noumena.Thus,Fichte rejected this view and postulated that the experience is created by thinking subject.That was the path of German Idealism that reached its zenith in Hegel's philosophy of Geist.

Life as a stage.

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.” Horace Walpole

Perhaps ,life is drama for those who think and feel.

Honest Russell.

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.-- Bertrand Russell (attributed), having been asked whether he would be prepared to die for his beliefs

Freedom and solitude.

'Nobody can like freedom unless they love solitude' ,said the master Schopenhaur.The relationship between solitude and freedom is quite complex and important.In my view ,everyone who seeks solitude or finds himself alone is free.The solitude is the abode of every great liberator.

Love Shyness.

Why is it that even in a conservative society like ours,more boys suffer from love shyness than girls?

Heraclitus the Sage.

'Sooner or later everything changes into its opposite '.
With this simple qoute he postulated one of the basic principles of psychology and a student of philosophy may also see the germs of hegelianism.

Fear of Death.

I tell you one must fear death because the day death seems easy,life becomes unbearable.

Lennon's life.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon, "Beautiful Boy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrfi8-9JVtE

Beast.

"No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast." - Richard III(Shakespear)

Concealing .

There are two ways of concealing oneself,either by talking too much or by talking too little about oneself.

Pessimism.

Pessimists believe that life is as bad as it can be,but infact pessimism is the self-realization that one is wasting one's life and there is nothing one can do about it.

Belief and uncertainity.

How shall we confirm truth?Since, truth arises through skeptecism and disbelief.But we are all afraid of doubt and uncertainity in some way or the other,it is this fear of uncertainity that leads us to belief.What is truth then,is it a mere belief or a fact that is verified?If it is a fact then it must be certain,how can something so certain arise from something so uncertain as skeptecism?Hegelianist may come up with abstract reasoning but that doesn't help.

Incurable disease.

I am suffering from an incurable disease,i'm suffering from Agape.

Reasons to love.

The day i will find out reasons to love,i'm pretty sure i'll love no more.

Women and appearance.

Well when it comes to women,i 've to admit i don't have much to offer.But from time to time i have brief encounters with women in my life.These brief experiences have made me certain about one fact that most of the women ( if not all) take appearance as reality and reality as mere appearance. :P

Cool Hand Luke and Existenialism.

Existentialism has been part of literature and movies ever since it was popularized by the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and other French Philosophers.I've seen many movies which can be interpreted as having existentialist or postmodernist (Nihilistic) tendencies. I myself can't stand movies having nihilistic themes such as 'Pulp Fiction',although these movies have been quite a success at the big screen and no body feels reluctant to call them 'Blockbuster'.
Existentialism on the other hand is not as hopeless a philosophy (If you consider it a philosophy) as Nihilism.Existentialism in a nutshell is philosophy 'individualized'.Its emphasis on human freedom and liberty is such that it has attracted many creative writers and film makers.The influence of existentialism spreads beyond the realm of philosophy.
'Cool Hand Luke',staring one of my favorite actors Paul Newman stands up as a movie which can surely belong to existential genre.The movie surrounds around one man's defiance against authority .The protagonist from start of the movie till its end ,struggles to get himself free.The problem with the most of the people is that they give up pretty quickly but the problem with our hero is that he never gives up.He can be described as a person who consciously makes all those efforts to get himself free,but is unconsciously aware about his futile efforts.Any person who have special affinity towards 'Existentialism' must see this masterpiece.Had Sartre reviewed this movie he would only have used one sentence to end it all,the sentence would surely have been ,'Man is condemned to be free'.But I will end my review with the tag line of the movie,'What we've got here is a failure to communicate'.



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Living according to Nature.

Aphoristic work at its best,i must admit the quality of Nietzsche's prose is dazzling and without a shadow of doubt, second to none.Here he speaks about nature and 'living according to nature'.

You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble
Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like
Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without
purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once
fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves
INDIFFERENCE as a power--how COULD you live in accordance with
such indifference? To live--is not that just endeavouring to be
otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring,
being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different? And
granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means
actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do
DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you
yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite
otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the
canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the
contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In
your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature,
to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist
that it shall be Nature "according to the Stoa," and would like
everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal
glorification and generalism of Stoicism! With all your love for
truth, you have forced yourselves so long, so persistently, and
with such hypnotic rigidity to see Nature FALSELY, that is to
say, Stoically, that you are no longer able to see it otherwise--
and to crown all, some unfathomable superciliousness gives you
the Bedlamite hope that BECAUSE you are able to tyrannize over
yourselves--Stoicism is self-tyranny--Nature will also allow
herself to be tyrannized over: is not the Stoic a PART of
Nature? . . . But this is an old and everlasting story: what
happened in old times with the Stoics still happens today, as
soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always
creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise;
philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual
Will to Power, the will to "creation of the world," the will to
the causa prima.

(Beyond Good and Evil)

Iqbal and God.

In 1931 Atiya Faizy (Lou Salome of Iqbal's life) arranged a tea party for Allama Iqbal in Mumbai.The party was attended by many intellectuals of India,during the party discussion turned to 'Afterlife' and the concept of immortality.Many people didn't agree with Iqbal's orthodox position on 'immortal life'.Allama came up with one of his beautiful shair.He said

'CHNAAN BEZI KEI AGAR MARAG MAAST MARG DOWAAM
KHUDAA ZIKERDOU KHUD SHERUMSAAAR TER GARDOU

Soon Iqbal realized that not many of the people in the party understood persian ,he translated his shair on demand.It goes something like that,

Live So beautifully
That if death is the end of all
God himself may be put to shame
For having ended thy career


Beautiful!

My Religion.

I remember when one of my mates recently asked me about my religion,i reluctantly replied that I'm a muslim.He asked me about my sect(which i suppose is always an essential question in our part of the world),i instantly replied , "Actually i'm a teleological existential muslim".(Woody Allen will surely call me a phony) .Lol!

Philosophy of the saint!

Nietzsche trivialised philosophy in a peculiarly philosophical way.

Common sense.

"Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit."- Unknown author

Psychology.

At times it feels like that there can be an end to philosophy ,but there can be no end to psychology.
If we confine philosophy to human reasoning,then the limits of reasons can be exposed.In contrast, if desires are considered part of human psyche then is there any limit that can be imposed?

My Philosophy .

What is philosophy to me,other than talking to myself.

Satan and Tauheed!

The Sufi says that one must learn the lesson of tauheed from satan as he refused to bow down towards Adam. :D

God!

It seems like that i have a 'love\hate' relationship with God,i love him and he hates me.

Unrequited love.

Love in its highest manifestations is always 'unrequited'.

Enigmatic 'Self'!

My own self became too enigmatic to decipher,the day other people started to appear naive to me.

Boredom.

Boredom makes us realize that we 'exist',or should i say we 'suffer'.

Poem by E.E.Cummings

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers
you open always petal by petal myself as spring opens
(touching skilfully, misteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i
and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending,

nothing we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility; whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;
only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain has such small hands

Introvert nature.

Ever since my childhood, some people misinterpret my introvert nature as arrogance.

Reluctant Bohemian.

I confess i'm a reluctant bohemian.
A bohemian is a person who refuses to follow conventions of the society.But in todays postmodern world it is an established convention that one must not follow conventions.Yet another darkside of postmodernism.

Instinctive gratification.

One of my friends is of the view that 'instinctive gratification' leads the way to happiness.
How can it leads to happiness when our instincts are at a continues war with each other?
One satisfies one instinct just to annoy another.

Anxiety.

They say thoughts and feelings that remain unexpressed cause anxiety.
Artists are always expressive, way expressive than normal people of society yet they suffer from anxiety more than anyone else.

Dil-e-Nadan!

Dil-e-Nadan ab tu tugh ko yehi baawer kerana hei
Jisey tum yaad kertey hu,usey ab bool jana hei



(Ata-ul-Haq Qasimi)

Lonely.

Its true that i am intellectually more productive when blue and lonely.

Heidegger and Dostoyevsky.

Heidegger once said, 'People who think great thoughts often make great errors'.
This statement represents truth nothing but the truth.It not only applies to Heidegger himself(Being a Nazi) but many other intellectuals (Sartre for his marxism,Russell for his aggressive remarks about USSR,Nietzsche for his uncompromising attitude which intially helped him to get rid off all delusions but eventually led to his insanity,Dostoyevsky for weak christian endings etc).


So after reading Heidegger, i have come to understand the true meaning of Dostoyevsky's statement in his great work 'The Brothers Karamazov'.He said,'In most cases vicious and intelligent people are much more naive and simple minded than we assume them to be'.

Its no wonder why Niezsche regarded Dostoyevsky of having penetrating knowledge of human psycology.

Logic and instincts.

I have changed my view to some extent about this topic lately,logic isn't a foe of instincts but represents its successful unison.Santayana was probably right about this assertion.

Who can fall in love?

A friend of mine told me something strange he has read about love in a book.He told me that

'No one can fall in love unless they read about it'.


what a delightful thought!

Death.

Death is the cause of philosophy,literature,religion, and God.
I used to think that a life without death would have been a life devoid of meaning,but lately i have come to realize that such existence would have included essence.Such a life would have been cuasa sui.

Philosophy.

Defining philosophy has never been an easy task.Some have called it 'Love of knowledge'.If one asks the question about its subject matter,my answer will be that Philosophy sees reality as a whole and is its 'own' subject matter.

But for me philosophy is looking at things in a different way every time.

What is love?

Love is all of the desires focused at one point.

Pavarotti - Ave Maria - Schubert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYrmYXsujI

What man seeks?

A man of courage ;full of determinism seeks nothing but the 'truth' .
But isn't it the case that its the truth that seeks such a person.

Nihilist's Manifesto!

The Nihilist manifesto begins,

"Man is an unsolvable riddle".

Feminism and Nietzsche.

In today's world there is little of man left,so women are trying to become man.Only those who are man enough,will be able to save women in women - Nietzsche

Obscurantism.

Obscurantism is fascinating,for me truth is always obscure.'Life' likes to hide its secrets from not only itself but from others aswell.Truth is in the habit of playing hide and seek.

A matter of life and death.

People who die every moment,live every moment too.

Futile efforts.

Man has been eternally seeking 'eternity'.

What silence can say!

Silence can say everything that cannot be said.

Face to face with Jung.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=A6D6N6U6Hjg&feature=related

Console!

I cant even console myself,what a pity!

Comfort and Harmony.

I always try to creat harmony and comfort for myself by thinking abstractly,but most of the time i end up making myself far more confused than ever.

Where is God?

Where is God?
This question has been haunting humanity since antiquity.I dont claim to give some concrete answer to this question but will raise a few more questions.'Is God hiding from us'?, said Nietzsche.But isn't it the case that instead we humans have been hiding all over the place but in vein?

To be different.

To be different one must not only live in a continuous conflict with others but also with oneself.

What is morality?

Morality is the result of ego's delusion that it can even do things that it doesn't possess.

Dedicate.

Lets dedicate 'todays thought' to a thought that i have never thought.

I Can't Stop Loving You.

I can’t stop loving you
So I’ve made up my mind
To live in memoryOf such an old lonesome time
I can’t stop wanting youIt’s useless to say
So I’ll just live my life
In dreams of yesterday.

Those happy hours
That we once knew
Though long ago,
They still make me blue


They say that time
Heals a broken heart
But time has stood still
Since we’ve been apart



Don Gibson - I cant stop loving you

Thoughts unsaid.

I am loosing myself in thoughts unsaid.

Whats the difference?

To err is human and to love is human aswell,whats the difference?

lives within life!

And the wild regrets and the bloody sweats None knew so well as I: That he who lives more lives than one, More deaths than one shall die.
- Oscar Wilde

Fake persona.

People are generally impressed by fake persona,but i'm impressed by those who admit they love fake persona.

Silence!

Silence is my way of saying 'i love you'.

What makes me feel good.

When i meet people who know more than i do,i feel dejected.But one thing makes me feel good that a man of wisdom may know thousand facts about life,but he cannot know the REAL me.

Oasis

Life is like a desert and everyone is in need of water(meaning),but only the lucky ones find the oasis.

Sartre on God!

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist. Jean-Paul Sartre

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. Jean-Paul Sartre

Self-criticism.

I feel ashamed for being a phony.

Moon's ignorance.

The moon takes all the light from sun ,but in ignorance thinks all the light comes from within.Only an eclipse helps him to recognise the truth.

When Nietzsche wept.

Josef Breuer (after seeing Nietzsche cring) :"If your tears had a voice what would they say"?

Nietzsche:"I feel ashamed but they will say, we are free because he never let us go unless doctor Breuer opened the gates."

Humans.

Whatever one calls a human;whether "a speck of dust","product of chance" or "Culmination of God's creativity";one thing is for sure that humans are incredible.

Belief.

There will always be a difference between what a person thinks he believes and what he actually believes.The unconcious mind plays its part pretty well.

Time and me.

With every passing second;a part of my life dies its death,but gives birth to another part of my life and the cycle countinues .

Rumi's love!

Everything expressed is clear,true love unexpressed is clearer - Maulana Rumi




Beautiful!

Zinda Rood's answer to "Is love truth?".

Iqbal answers my query,

Zinda Rood to me:
"Although its true that all illusions,lies and falsehood hides themselves behid love BUT does that mean love is not truth?NO,love still is truth.
Isn't it the case that all falsehood hides itself behind truth?Because if there isn't any truth there is no question of falsehood.
So the mere fact that lies ,illusions and delusios hide themselves behind Love doesn't change its very nature ,that is truth."

Absolute freedom.

The idea that abosulte freedom exists for everybody is incoherent.There can only be ONE absolutely free entity ,the freedom of all others will be relative to that absolutely free entity.Because the absolute freedom of one takes some part (if not all) of the freedom of others.

Is love truth?

I laugh at those who say love is truth.As far as i can see all illusions,delusions,lies and falsehood hide themselves behind LOVE.

Nietzsche speaks about me.

But during the longest period of the human past nothing was more terrible than to feel that one stood by oneself. To be alone, to experience things by oneself, neither to obey nor to rule, to be an individual—that was not a pleasure but a punishment; one was sentenced to "individuality."


The Gay science

My sweet lord!

Oh my lord please save me from 'meaningless' life and death .For all my life i've yearned for a moment that doesn't belong to the passing day.Help me see the ocean in a drop of water.

Losing myself.

Life seems to get worse with every passing hour these days,and i have no one to blame but myself.I don't even tell myself of what i want,each day i wear a mask to befool people but how can i deceive myself?I'm living in a state of mind where i have become a complete unknown to myself.

While my guitar gently weeps!

I dont know how you were divertedYou were perverted too
I dont know how you were invertedNo one alerted you.
I look at you all see the love there thats sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
Look at you all . . .
Still my guitar gently weeps.


G.HARRISON.

Is life Gratuitous?

Well,Sartre considered life and the whole universe gratuitous.But i would like to ask another questions to those who have accepted this view that if life is gratuitous than why the most potent human will is 'Will to survive'.
This life preserving attitude of humans seems uncompatible with the idea of gratuitous life.

Happyness.

There is a strange kind of happiness in crying because it makes me remember all the good times i had.

Deep-rooted loneliness.

I used to fear loneliness,tried all sorts of things to avoid it.But now i've given up; not because it has surrounded me from everywhere but because its the last thing i have been left with.

Mind

A person's mind is not even sincere with itself,It deceives itself.

Death.

Death is nature's pity on life.

Thinking and not thinking.

I try most of the day about 'not thinking' but end up thinking all that time about 'not thinking'.

Being used.

How does it feel when one is being used ?
How does it feel when one realizes that he is being used?
How does it feel when one enjoy being used?

The Rising

The sun must go down to rise again.

Dilemma.

The problem with most of the people is that they give up too quickly but my problem is i never give up. :p

Futile search.

I walked a thousand miles in search of truth,but the fool in me never realized that the truth was within me.So the search ended from where it began,alas! a futile search.

Soul

What is within me
that hears without hearing?
that talks without talking?
and still i seek my 'soul'.

Wake up!

Wake up from the deep sleep of hallucination,
where night seems day,and day seems night
where tears are laughter,and laughter are tears
Wake up,Wake Up!