#philosophy

"Remember, every failure makes you stronger and wiser."

"Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence."

"The Poet's Disease My body atrophies.My mind swells.Imagination's become my crutch."

"Love is a flower that grows in the garden of mind if we treat it with kindness, compassion, and joy."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"

"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."

"...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient."

"There's More Than Two Choices [10w] Don't take the road less traveled;blaze your own path."

"Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides."

"The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom."

"A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window."

"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."

"Evil [10w] Believing you're evil sets into motion the wheels of self-destruction."

"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."

"National Rifle Association Credo [10w] God gave us two hands to holdan assault rifle."

"Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk"

"Close your eyes to feel deeply the tranquility and serenity of the mind."

"If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?"

"We are barely conscious. With a higher consciousness we can open the door between infinite possibilities."

"I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle."