philosophy

"Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals."

"A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement."

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."

"In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."

"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well...."

"the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger."

"You like me not because I like you. I like you just because I like me."

"Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own."

"The Getsmart PrayerI do my laundry and you do yours,I am not in this life to listen to your ceaseless yammering,And you are not in this world for any discernable reason at all.You are you, and I am I, and I got the better deal.And if by chance we find each other, it will be unspeakably tedious.Fuck off."

"Le bonheur, c'est continuer à désirer ce que l'on a déjà."

"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."

"While it was well within their powers to toy around with mortals like hapless puppets, deeper human workings remained elusive to them. The heart, the soul, the very foundation of man’s nature—those were mysteries to the gods, for all their manipulations."

"Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business."

"Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night."

"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories."

"We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save."

"Every heart has a unique story to tell. We just need a mind to listen."

"Tristetea, ca si suferinta, ne revela existenta, deoarece în ele avem în constiinta separatia noastra de lumea obiectiva si nelinistea care da un caracter tragic vietuirii în existenta.Daca ar exista un zeu al tristetii, lui nu i-ar putea creste decât aripi negre si grele, pentru a zbura nu înspre ceruri, ci în infern."

"Hook 'em I know how to leave them satisfied and hungry for more ~with a carefully administered shot of insulin."

"Poetry and Dogs [10w] Poetry and dogs make the best companions.Don't trust dogs."