philosophy

"Do you think you wear a mask?’‘I’m wearing one right now.’ Valentino smiled softly. ‘We both are.’‘It’s a sad thought.’‘Yes,’ he said. ‘But sometimes I wonder about the alternative. Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?"

"Wir werden alt und grau. Wir werden eines Tages verschlissen sein und aus der Welt verschwinden. Mit unseren Träumen ist das anders. Sie können in anderen Menschen weiterleben, wenn es uns schon längst, längst nicht mehr gibt."

"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company."

"The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness."

"Don't write to sell, write to tell."

"Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there."

"Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go."

"Love is the magic, mystery, and the beauty of life."

"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"Whatever I learned,Whatever I knew,Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,Away in some dilemma,Always in some confusion,The purpose of this life,Seems like an illusion!"

"❞ [10w] "Let's cuddle like a quotation mark filling a blank page."

"The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself."

"Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)"

"We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people"

"Plato was a bore."

"Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud-Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?"

"This inhuman place makes human monsters."

"Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world."

"Науката казва докажи ми и ще повярвам, а вярата казва повярвай и ще ти докажа!"