philosophy

"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy."

"Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself."

"The future depends on what you do today."

"In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works."

"Death isn't the end, it's the beginning."

"Remember your humanity, and forget the rest."

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

"A Real Passionate Kiss Should Feel Like Dying [10w] Like ice melting into water coming to a rolling boil."

"[T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world."

"You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining."

"Love vs. Control [10w] A lover you can control is not worthy of having."

"Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth."

"The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned"

"War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out."

"It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical."

"Philosophy is the highest music."

"You can never deplete your love by giving it away. Why not give yourself to love?"

"As individuals express their life, so they are."

"If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards."

"If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked."