what do you think about these quotes?

[WALKYRIA]

Hello Fellow inTP's Im curious to know what do y'all think about these quotes? Can you relate? What's their meaning? I see them everywhere on the internet but don't really get the deep meaning(native french speaker)..although they resonate in me.


1° We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
(henry james)


2°What you want and what will bring you joy may not always be the same thing.
(modern women guide or somethin...)

 

[Duxwing]

Hello Fellow inTP's Im curious to know what do y'all think about these quotes? Can you relate? What's their meaning? I see them everywhere on the internet but don't really get the deep meaning(native french speaker)..although they resonate in me.


1° We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
(henry james)


2°What you want and what will bring you joy may not always be the same thing.
(modern women guide or somethin...)

The first quote is a rough skeptic's creed: a skeptic knows only that he knows nothing because he lacks the credulity to adopt a specific school of thought and therefore destroys logical constructs instead of creating them. In giving what he has, he spreads his skepticism to others so that they too may question their beliefs, and the "madness of art" refers to the seemingly ludicrous lengths to which a skeptic will go to prove that a system contains an internal inconsistency or false premise. In all, the quote can be considered a loose codification of the skeptical school of thought.

The second quote refers to the fact that "what you want"-- one's fleeting passions-- needn't accurately reflect "what will bring you joy-- one's future feelings.

-Duxwing

 

[JASSY]

For the second quote, as a youth you think you know what you want . With maturity you find out who you are and what you truly enjoy, which in most cases it wasn't what you thought it was before.