"Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true,"it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?"
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"Kim olursak olalım, dünyanın hangi yerinde yaşarsak yaşayalım, ta derinlerde bir yerde hepimiz bir eksiklik duygusu taşımaktayız. Sanki temel bir şeyimizi kaybetmişiz de geri alamamaktan korkuyoruz. Neyin eksik olduğunu bilenimizde hakikaten çok az."
"This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find;The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;"
"Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science."
"Une philosophie doit etre portative."
"God May Grant Your Wishes Daily [10w] Pray for sunshine at night and moonbeams when you wake."
"The Sound of Killing [10w] + [10w] A doe, a deer, a femaledeerin my headlights.A doe, a deer, a femaledeeron my sunroof."
"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."
"Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man."
"The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure."
"*"Maybe the whole point of my life is to make you feel more alive."
"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"
"No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high."
"When I see that humanity is suffering, it tears my heart. I cry, and then I extend my hand to help heal my heart."
"I believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to try again."
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
"Knocked-Up Kinda' Loven Marry, me, marry me, marry me,You better say, 'affirmative',Cuz you stuck a bun in my ovenand you haven't an alternative."
"If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow."
"Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts."
"I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love."