Porphyrius Quotes & Sayings

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution. — Adolf Hitler

The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about. — Shannon L. Alder

The liberator who destroyed my property has realigned my perceptions. — Chuck Palahniuk

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound. — Milan Kundera

Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It's unsettling. It's like a fictitious person. — Stacy Schiff

For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy, it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived. For the mystical practice of an Indian, Persian, Chinese, or Neo-Platonic mystic it is a matter of indifference whether Rama, Buddha, Laotse, or Porphyrius are myths or not. The mystic has no personal relation to them. It is not here a question of somebody telling me the truth which of myself I cannot find, but of my finding an access to the depths of the world in the depths of my soul. — Emil Brunner