Philosophy Quote by Joseph Bruchac — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones.”

“Who we are now is all that really matters.”

“Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.”

“إنني أستعرض جميع ما كُتب، فلا تميل نفسي إلا إلى ما كتبه الانسان بقطرات دمه. اكتب بدمك فتعلم حينئذ أن الدم روح، وليس بالسهل أن يفهم الإنسان دماً غريباً، إنني أبغض كل قارئ كسول لأن من يقرأ لا يخدم القراءة بشئ، واذا مر قرن آخر على طغمة القارئين فلا بد من أن تتصاعد رائح النتن من التفكير”

“And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love”

“If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen.”

“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to”