#philosophy

"Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them."

"I believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to try again."

"He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both."

"Brownie Mix [10w] + {Couplet} Betwixt hell and the River Styx,I'll be shitting bricks."

"Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening."

"The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be."

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

"I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What’s the difference? Eventually it’ll end up empty and in the trash."

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

"Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods."

"Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.(There is no reality except in action.)"

"Achieving higher levels of consciousness is the ultimate magic of life."

"Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live!"

"Soar Like a Pigeon [10w] Better be a pigeon than an eagle with Indians around."

"Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe."

"Comedy vs. Satire [10w] Comedy pokes fun at society's self-inflation;satire deflates the balloon."

"The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph."

"Call no man happy until he is dead."

"Compassion [10w] Compassion is the combination to enter the vault of heaven."

"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."