philosophy

"Animal Species Identity [10w] Funny how animals know their own species without a mirror."

"If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow."

"Find someone who loves you enough to forgive you for all of your mistakes."

"To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven."

"Kraft Macaroni & Cheese: It's the cheesiest... ...advertising slogan ever!"

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

"Some want to live within the soundOf church or chapel bell;I want to run a rescue shop,Within a yard of hell."

"Your ocean of joy in not out there. Find it inside of you and swim there forever."

"The greatest untold story is the evolution of God."

"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."

"The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that."

"People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does."

"This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood."

"In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things."

"It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence."

"Detonation vs. Pre-Ignition [10w] Poets have thin skins;physicists call this differential burn rates."

"Forgive to set yourself free; love to set the prisoner free."

"Kim olursak olalım, dünyanın hangi yerinde yaşarsak yaşayalım, ta derinlerde bir yerde hepimiz bir eksiklik duygusu taşımaktayız. Sanki temel bir şeyimizi kaybetmişiz de geri alamamaktan korkuyoruz. Neyin eksik olduğunu bilenimizde hakikaten çok az."

"What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did."

"Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house."