Philosophical Thinkering – Page 2

Hierarchy Towers

Acme, Zenith and Summit – The Hierarchy Towers (Freepik)

What the people are within, the buildings express without.
Louis Sullivan, American Architect

Location: Now

The Clockmobile halts at Platform Wow (Generated by DALL-E2)

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart Tolle, German Spiritual Teacher and Self-help Author

A World to Word

Le Ballon – Imprimeur E. Pichot (Painted in 1883)

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Sometimes

The Desperate Man – Gustave Courbet (Painted between 1843 & 45)

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple Computers Inc.

Obscure Observations

Composition 8 – Vasily Kandinsky (Painted in 1923)

Seeing is the consequence of optics; observing is the consequence of imaginative contemplation.
Ian Semple, Member of the Universal House of Justice of the Bahá’í faith

I Stood

Woman in the Garden – Claude Monet (Painted in 1866)

Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling, English Novelist

Re-motivation

Napoleon Crossing the Alps – Jacques-Louis David (Painted in 1801)

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
Napoleon Bonaparte, French Military Commander and Leader

Flood, the Messenger

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde, Irish Poet and Playwright

Alive, thou art!

Man, thou art; art and artist,
Canvas and colour, painter and paint.
Man’s warm heart, enshrines a list,
Of loves to love, till fatally faint.

Ennui’s Flower

Ennui’s Plantation (Image Generated by DALL-E2)

In a restless state of rest, we often lie, on Boredom’s comfy bed,
Thinking of all we can accomplish, and accomplishing nothing instead!