philosophy

"FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy."

"THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM[all snap flags]Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem."

"The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution."

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"Biggest mistake that people make is. That they forget that there is always next time. For any event, any situation and any circumstances."

"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."

"Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith."

"Infinite Promise The carrot of infinite promise always dangles just inches beyond our noses.The trick is to surreptitiously switch that carrot for a zucchini."

"Your love is the light that will drive away all the darkness that surrounds you."

"It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist."

"I promise you that I will steal your heart and keep it in the prison of my love forever."

"The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom."

"Really, nobody was there?” I asked.“Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking."

"The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him."

"The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)"

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions."

"To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated."

"Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight."