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.