#philosophical

"Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins."

"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

"Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free."

"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."

"Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers."

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

"Wonderment shared is doubled.Love shared is infinite."

"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."

"Time is the Mind of Space."

"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."

"Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change"

"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."

"Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance"

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

"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."

"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]"

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

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

"This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown."

"You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation."