philosophy

"You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world."

"❞ [10w] "Let's cuddle like a quotation mark filling a blank page."

"An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes."

"He who knows how to use the power of love is the most powerful."

"Hellman's Mayonnaise: Bring out the Hellman's and bring out the best... ...artery clogger since Burger King’s Triple Whopper with Cheese."

"Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?"

"În clipa când ți se impune să nu te gândești la un lucru, te vei gândi doar la el, obsesiv. Interdicția devine obligație."

"Every rose has poetry in her heart and is eager to tell you when you are in love."

"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die."

"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."

"Curse of the Ageing Woman {Couplet} I'm a wallflower, bluestocking, left on the Shelf, When you're beyond one's sell-by date, you've left by yourself,"

"You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face"

"Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true,"it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?"

"To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it."

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

"I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect."

"Sublime natures are seldom clean!"

"Paint your life with the colors of kindness so that you may find the true bliss of happiness."

"You were free, you are free and you will be free."

"Mereka yang berani adalah mereka yang telah berkorban menemukan dirinya sendiri"