philosophy

"We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself."

"In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few"

"For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses."

"As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience."

"Life is magical and blissful when we live to love the beauty of life."

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities."

"I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain."

"To dream your wildest dream, find your deepest desire."

"May you live every day of your life."

"This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief."

"No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species."

"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."

"God vs. Satan [10w] Why can't God and Satan get along?They're both detail-oriented."

"Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever his heart required. For Sorweel, belief and want always seemed like ropes too short to bind together, forcing him to play the knot as a result."

"The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental."

"Rhode Island State Motto Hope.Not much here but at least we have Family Guy."

"If you think fate is fickle, try tempting it"

"Be a great writer when you write your life's song."

"Rain Check I'm a shitty typist and speller, I hunt and peck,I wrote, "i LeFt mY sWeEtToOtH iN yOuR nEcKoF tHe WoOdS, cOuLd YoU pLeAsE bRiNgIt BeCk."Surprisingly, you did,and left."rAiN cHeCk."

"Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance"