philosophy

"We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner."

"Other people are only aspects of our own greater being."

"Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical."

"I dream like a dew drop in the nightThen glitter in the morning sunlightThen it evaporates to embrace the sky"

"Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry."

"Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying."

"Follow your heart; don’t fear changes. With love, the heart changes its content."

"I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats."

"The Freedom Paradox [10w] The act of protecting freedom is a violation of freedom."

"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."

"You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste."

"Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable."

"How did you die?""We er....drowned in a bathtub.""All three of you?""It was a big bathtub."

"Not a good book. It attempts to take a complex subject and make it assessable to the layman with cartoons, and in this effort it fails. Moreover, the authors often take biased stances, and while I agree with them for the most part it nonetheless detracts from any scholarly offerings in which they wish to partake."

"Did He Do the Right Thing? I walked out of the room. I did not stay to watch my beloved draw her last breath because I didn't want all my magical memories of her tainted by the profanity of death."

"Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away,"

"Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability."

"I strive for perfection - I settle for satisfaction"

"Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men."

"One Size Fits All Life Strategy Smile first.Ask questions later."