I, while the gods laugh, the world’s vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me;And in small compass the dark waters cram.- I, While the Gods Laugh, the World’s Vortex Am
You can’t just skip the boring parts.Of course I can skip the boring parts.How do you know they’re boring if you don’t read them?I can tell.Then you can’t say you’ve read the whole play.I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don’t read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.Who knows? she said. Maybe you can’t.
Anyone who says Trust me is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.
I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love
The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don’t just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today – in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.
We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It’s sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It’s always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
We all have the beast in us Bill, and it is up to us to control it.
It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else’s is unhygienic
This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it.
No matter your religion, philosophy, or political beliefs, violence is not the way to achieve peace.
Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love – but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love.
Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try … The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.
I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philosophy, and, then, political science. I thought, ‘Wow, this is something I really enjoy.’ I kind of got into that whole world of law and political science. I was really into it and enjoying it, and then I took an acting elective, and that was it.
I kind of love it. It’s so macabre. The reason we haven’t seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or destroyed there. It still doesn’t really explain anything though – we can’t see anyone because it’s impossible to see anyone. It’s circular. It doesn’t say why becoming space proficient dooms us.
The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.
I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That’s my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments.
She wondered which was worse—living your whole life staring at yourself or waiting your whole life for someone to stare back at you.
The problem is not only with what’s right and wrong but the problem is with who decides about what’s right and wrong.
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you’re doing something creative. You can be cheesy… or you can be lame.
On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of spiritual-corporal desires of an especially personal and sharing nature (cf. analysis of the beginning), to which a proportionate pyramid of values corresponds. On the other hand, lust limits this gamut, obscuring the pyramid of values that marks the perennial attraction of male and female.
A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he’s often sure he can find one. And that’s a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else’s nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.
Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence.
I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god – no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists.
Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand’s philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key – and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[…] Because if the food wasn’t under lock and key, Julie, who would work?
Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.
I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.
Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.
…as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.
Slowness means cleaving perfectly to time, so closely that the seconds fall one by one, drop by drop like the steady dripping of a tap on stone. This stretching of time deepens space. It is one of the secrets of walking: a slow approach to landscapes that gradually renders them familiar. Like the regular encounters that deepen friendship.
Remember two things: i. that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.
People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.
If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man’s nature and of life’s potential.
My philosophy in life… is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.
The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason.
Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.
Because it’s much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.
Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.
The object of studying philosophy is to know one’s own mind, not other people’s.
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate – it’s not a new philosophy I’m sharing – more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.
Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.
I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.