#philosophical

"We are the sum total of the decisions we have made."

"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."

"Were knowledge all, what were our needTo thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?"

"I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict."

"I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become."

"The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people."

"The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all"

"Avoid loud and aggressive persons,they are vexations to the spirit."

"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

"The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English--a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger translation? You don't jump essence, you jump environs!"

"It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]"

"How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do."

"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."

"Listen."Jennifer reverted, "I didn't mean anything by all of that before. I understand what you were trying to do and ..."She struggled for the right words. "Sweetie, like love, people don't live inside of life, life lives inside of you. Open yourself up to it and there's no stopping your heart."

"What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common...."

"[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not."

"Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be."

"Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law."

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

"Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming."