philosophy

"It's a philosophical minefield!"Cabal had a brief mental image of Aristotle walking halfway across an open field before unexpectedly disappearing in a fireball. Descartes and Nietzsche looked on appalled. He pulled himself together."

"Laughter is the hand of God on the shoulder of a troubled world."

"All knowledge is worth having."

"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."

"If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance."

"Be persistent. Success is not far away."

"Hate [10w] Love cannot hate eradicate ~only a more ruthless hate can."

"You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light."

"Lost vs. Lost We get lost twice in life.The first stems from uncertainty,when we try to find what our dreams truly are.The more profound feeling of being lost is existential, and comes unforeseen, after we finally fulfill our dreams.To survive the latter, we must create an entirely new set of dreams."

"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."

"Ars Poetica: Dovetailing Collage [10w] Poems should be a dovetailing collage not a linear cohesion."

"you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry"

"Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy"

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

"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

"We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later."

"Explanations can’t explain love--only deep perception can do that."

"The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)"

"Do not look for my heart any more; the beasts have eaten it."