The most beautiful dreams are those unfulfilled.
Quote of the Week 37 “The most beautiful dreams are those unfulfilled. ” ― Alan Bipe
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We don't really want what we think we desire.
Quote of the Week 27 “ We don't really want what we think we desire.” ― Slavoj Žižek Triggered by thephilosophyquote on Instagram: Sieh dir diesen Beitrag auf Instagram an Ein Beitrag geteilt von Promoting the world through books (@indieauthorshowcase) As quoted on Goodreads and BigThink : “ We don't really want to get what we think that we want. I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh my god if my wife were to disappear - I'm not a murderer but let us say- that it will open up a new life with the mistress.Then, for some reason, the wife goes away, you lose the mistress. You thought this is all I want, when you have it there, you turn out it was a much more complex situation. It was not to live with the mistress, but to keep her as a distance as on object of desire about which you dream. This is not an excessive example, I claim this is how things function. We don't really w...
The idea of the future is more fruitful than the future itself.
Quote of the Week 12 " The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality. " ― Henri Bergson The search for this quote was triggered by a recent visit to Bergson Kunstkraftwerk still under construction. Another quote attributed to Bergson for which I could not find the original source: " New ideas, in most cases, are the children of old thoughts. "
Happiness is continuing to desire what you already possess.
Quote of the Week 3 " Happiness is continuing to desire what you already possess. " ― Friedrich Nietzsche Triggered by the use of a variant of the quote in the movie " The Taste of Things ": "Le bonheur, c’est de continuer à désirer ce que l’on a déjà." " Glück ist, weiter das zu begehren, was man bereits hat. " "Happiness is continuing to desire what we already have."
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Quote of the Week 3 " To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. " ― Bertrand Russell See also: LinkedIn post.