#philosophy

"A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for."

"When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed."

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

"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."

"…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?"

"Be a magnet of peace, and attract everyone to make them peaceful."

"We can never live in the past; so everyday we begin anew."

"A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!"

"Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for."

"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."

"I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach."

"Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves."

"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here."

"We evaluate, measure, and describe this world from our own point of view, but how does a tree see the world?"

"Narcissist, Assholes and Immunization Narcissists and assholes are immunized by their egos and sense of entitlement against the criticisms, grievances and resentments of others."

"Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere."

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."

"We appreciate things not for their beauty but for how they kindle our minds’ generosity."

"Pulling a Houdini Relationships are magic;we're always getting each other out of handcuffs and strait-jacketswhile locked in a steamer trunk underwater."

"Dogs Playing Poker Art [10w] Poker-faced dogs looks like they're bluffing or need to shit."