#philosophy

"Where's Ralph Waldo Emerson When you Need Him? A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds;as opposed to bigger hobgoblins with bigger dicks, doing all sorts of ghoulish shit behind the Venetian blinds."

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?"

"There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and trying to make sense of them. Dim, shaky, weak, static-y little signals that only hint at the complexity of a universe we cannot begin to understand."

"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily."

"Let me get lost in your heart so that I may find myself in the mirror of your mind."

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

"To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone."

"They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds."

"Simply Fabulous Haiku If I write fablesam I a fabulist orsimply fabulous?"

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

"Travel [10w] The difference between a traveler and vacationer is one arrives."

"Western Hypocricy I laugh at the hypocrisy of this western world that only expects the Muslims and Jews to act more Christian, while they continueto revel in the carnage of their heathen ways."

"When I am longing for love, every rose is the expression of my soul."

"The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others."

"Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it."

"First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations."

"Every human being is a reflection of this universe."

"Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard?” asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air. My eyes narrowed attentively at her face, but as I hesitated, she announced eagerly, “Disgusting cardboard it is!"

"Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice"people, not heroes."

"If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin."