#philosophy

"Remorse among Thieves When a caught thief shows remorse he says to himself,"I knew I should pull off that heist differently."

"Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason"

"You are the storyteller and the editor of your book of life. So write tales of imagination, tragedy, and adventure and illustrate it with the colors of beauty."

"A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands."

"All of Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato."

"Writer's Block [10w] Every writer's block is surrounded by a million other possibilities."

"Thorny Love [10w] A thorn by any other name would hurt as much."

"A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself."

"Children and Food [10w] Once children order like grown-upsfood's lost its sweet innocence."

"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors."

"Whose Asphalt Is It? [10w] The road to mediocrity is paved with asphalt and tarmac."

"Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences."

"Battered Women [5w] Battered womenare more crispy."

"Every rose has poetry in her heart and is eager to tell you when you are in love."

"Murder [10w] Two coats of paint doen't get rid of a ghost."

"Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about."

"Oxford, England Haiku City shrouded in fogand within the blinding mist we found each other."

"Coffee Wisdom [2] For a real manthe only thing better than the scent of pussyis the smell of freshly ground coffee."

"Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt."

"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."