philosophy

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."

"Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas"- "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses"

"...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes."

"Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?"

"The truth is helpless when up against perception"

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

"Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real."

"Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind."

"What is the Meaning of Life? [10w] {6} To be transformed into all we are capable of becoming."

"Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven."

"Dream the life you desire. Then live it with passion and love."

"Who we are now is all that really matters."

"If the sum of living be love's fee,Tremble. You are my one eternity."

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

"When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!"

"This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past."

"Soulmate My Ass [10w] Aspire to marry the person the least wrong for you."

"Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so."

"This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave."

"Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it."