#philosophy

"Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as to go hunting a porcupine. I cannot leave this alone, Nighteyes.I understand. I am the same about porcupines."

"Body is a home, a prison and a grave."

"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."

"Our imagination is bigger than this universe."

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

"If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now."

"But is all this true?"said Brutha.Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.""You mean you don't KNOW it's true?"said Brutha."I THINK it might be,"said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about."

"Music is the language of the heart. It can only sing songs of love."

"Truth may start out timid, but it finishes bold."

"Apocalypse is a frame of mind."[Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope."

"The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous helping of gravity. The universe had a definite tendency towards awareness. This suggested a certain subtle cruelty woven into the very fabric of space-time."

"All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion."

"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve."

"Shadows are only Neutral at Noon [10w] + {Couplet} Whose side shadows fall upon,tis' ordained by reigning sun."

"For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but full suicide, for instead of the fullness of self-definition, they fall into complete isolation."

"A poet is a silent singer; he sings the deep songs of the soul silently."

"Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul."

"The sun gave us our eyes to see the beauty of nature, his creation, through his light."

"[E]very man ought to say to himself, "Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?"

"That’s the thing about love It can take you up to the mountaintop and can drop you And the impact will either kill you or make you a new person"