philosophy

"Question everything, unless it's the answer"

"My ship came in,then it sank!"

"There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame."

"The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values."

"Without judging anyone, let us love everyone like a flower."

"Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it."

"Because in some other universe, you are me, I am you, and we are perfectly happy together. Or perhaps not… and just like this…"

"This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws."

"Trebuie sa te departezi putin de tine ca sa te poti apropia de ceilalti."

"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors."

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

"Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas."

"We appreciate things not for their beauty but for how they kindle our minds’ generosity."

"I have a sickness doctors can't cure,Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction,Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her love,Eager, like the drunk gulping wine mixed with poison,Shameless were those my nights,Yet my soul loved them beyond all passion."

"Vacations for Souls [10w] When souls are bored in Heaven they vacation in Hell."

"Kindness is the beauty of the heart and the smiles of the mind."

"If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones."

"All I wanted to do, ever, was be myself."

"Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived and adopted. The meanings of concepts and words change with use, and even the Supreme Court has admitted that the original perspective of the American social contract has been altered by the passage of time."

"The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event."