philosophy

"Wheels of Change Discontentment is the wheels of change.You can either add some grease to bring about change faster,or run in front of them in protest,and be crushed by them."

"Imitation [10w] Art imitates life.Life imitates art.I just imitate imitation."

"All actual life is encounter."

"Wisest is she who knows she does not know."

"Że też w tym kraju każdy kelner jest filozofem i każdy filozof kelnerem."

"Athens, Texas Haiku Blackeyed Pea Capital of the World.Yup, just another shithole."

"Movies [10w] Movies were invented to sellbuttery snacks and sugary drinks"

"Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism."

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

"If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th of your life wasting your free time? After all, free time isn’t free. Free time is the most expensive time you have, because nobody pays for it but you. But that also makes it the most valuable time you have, as you alone stand to reap the profits from spending it wisely."

"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect."

"Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms."

"You are not what you think, but you are the reflection of what you think."

"All of Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato."

"Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing."

"Percayalah, bila kamu tidak dapat mengalihkan perhatian pada hal lain yang fana..., dan hanya memikirkan kehidupan itu sendiri, kamu akan gila: karena ia akan mengalahkan dan merendahkanmu secara perlahan."

"Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential."

"I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her."

"Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it."

"Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction."