#philosophy

"Adult Pretend [10w] "I'm tired of playing 'pretend';let's play 'get-real, bitch."

"Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue."

"I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats."

"No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."

"What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?"

"To find a focus, learn to love and dream."

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

"Bagels and Lox Life's an everything bagel;love is a schmear of scallion cream cheese;and lox, no matter how you cut it,is resistant to dumbass metaphors."

"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."

"....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia—by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.(tr Jowett)"

"Love makes the journey we call life worthwhile."

"It is impossible for Stream to achieve unhappiness. Indeed it is. Unless that is, it exists in consciousness. It is impossible for the unordered to achieve happiness or unhappiness unless it were to Flow a certain way in relation with ordered effects.Unhappiness, happiness is a potential activated by the ordered in Flow."

"Life always begins with triumph but tends to end with tragedy."

"Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility."

"The most important purpose of education is to learn how to find the beauty of life."

"Hung [10w] Being caught with your pants down is a hanging offense."

"Scientology [10w] There's nothing more oppressive than the ignorance of foolish belief."

"There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist."

"Our levels of consciousness and awareness define our wants and needs. When we achieve higher levels of consciousness, our wants cease to exist."

"Contiguous vs. Continuous Identity Identity's only preserved in death;in life it is ever-changing."