It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
If you can’t test it, it’s not theorics — it’s metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.
In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty…
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.
A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.
You can’t have living without dying. So you can’t call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.
Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.
As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.
Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? …Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man’s appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.
I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent – a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident – that is very sexy – but at the same time, he’s very kind to people.
…when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one.
In the world of art, all things are possible.–George from Paradise Kiss
Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won’t shoot your foot off.
I’m told I have the body of a god.A Greek god, or one of those gods with the horse heads or elephant’s legs coming out of their chests? Alan asked. Next time someone tells you that, ask them to specify.
Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made.
I read about eastern philosophy and religion and existentialism. All that introspective thinking got me thinking about the great beyond. That turned my sights from inwards to outwards, and I started becoming interested in the makeup of the universe, and I started reading about astronomy, planets, and galaxies.
Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n’exprime finalement que son désir de dormir. Le spectacle est le gardien de ce sommeil.
…much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don’t mean anything by them.
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
To you who eat a lot of rice because you’re lonely,
To you who sleep a lot because you’re bored,
To you who cry a lot because you are sad, I write this down.
Chew on your feelings that are cornerned like you would chew on rice.
Anyway, life is something that you need to digest.
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today
If you have to dry the dishes
(Such an awful boring chore)
If you have to dry the dishes
(‘Stead of going to the store)
If you have to dry the dishes
And you drop one on the floor
Maybe they won’t let you
Dry the dishes anymore
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I’ve sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, ‘What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?’ Most people see their motivations as justified – as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.
Nature, it seems, is the popular namefor milliards and milliards and milliardsof particles playing their infinite gameof billiards and billiards and billiards.
In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science.
Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?
No one believes you’re serious until bodies start to fall. -Vlad
If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them.
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
I don’t like to think of it as ‘stolen’. They have no proof that I didn’t plan on giving it back.You’re kidding, right?He shrugged. You have no proof either.She squinted back at him. Were you planning on giving it back?Maybe.An orange light blinked on in the corner of Cinder’s vision-her cyborg programming picking up on the lie.
We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.
Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit’s judgment: There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and look around, in his not digging deeper here but laying his spade aside; there is also something suspicious about it. Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hideout, every word also a mask.
Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.
Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I’d be doing a hundred and twenty.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?
When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.