"Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night."
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"Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro."
"It is impossible for Stream to achieve unhappiness. Indeed it is. Unless that is, it exists in consciousness. It is impossible for the unordered to achieve happiness or unhappiness unless it were to Flow a certain way in relation with ordered effects.Unhappiness, happiness is a potential activated by the ordered in Flow."
"Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real"
"Nobody is good or bad. They are either strong or weak. Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations. Weak people, many a times, do not even realise how low they have fallen."
"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily."
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
"The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play"
"religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism."
"Predestination [10w] 'Twas predestined that I'd call predestination a crock of shit."
"Love delayed is lust augmented."
"Kiss me with love like a butterfly kisses flowers to find and taste the nectar of life."
"Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it."
"To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil."
"Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts."
"Other people are only aspects of our own greater being."
"She is like a dancing flower; her smiles are spreading love for the whole world."
"You’re still a little shy, I see, the wizard noted. I think if you ignore evil, my friend, it tends to grow stronger. (Quinhelm, the wizard - from BRIGGEN)"
"True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live"
"What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne."