philosophy

"What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?"

"Office Depot: Taking Care of Business... ...with short breaks, bad management and no job advancement opportunities."

"According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply."

"Summer NYC ☜ʇɥƃᴉlɟ☞'ɥsɐp ɐ 'ɥsɐlds ∀˙ɥʇɐq ʍollɐɥs ɐ ʇɐ sʍoɹɹɐds ǝʞᴉlsɹǝlʞuᴉɹds ʇɐ uǝɹplᴉɥƆ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Children at sprinklerslike sparrows at a shallow bath.A splash, a dash, ☜flight☞"

"انه ينكر الحياة و لكنه لا يستحق الموت"

"Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever his heart required. For Sorweel, belief and want always seemed like ropes too short to bind together, forcing him to play the knot as a result."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."

"Failure results from lack of focus and half trust. Success results from complete devotion and utmost trust."

"No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have."

"Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth."

"You know, sometimes I think this is just not it,” he said, his glasses flashing from the early night’s light. He turned toward me in a thoughtful pause.“You know what I mean, Tom?” he asked. “It’s just not."

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"

"L'homme est libre au moment qu'il veut l'être."

"Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments."

"Love is as abundant and powerful as sunlight. It can enlighten the whole world. Clouds of doubt can hide it temporarily, but it is always there. It can heal you as sunlight, but it can also burn you."

"What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did."

"Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability."

"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."

"A pen, a piece of white paper, and an idea can create a new you."