#philosophy

"Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy."

"Like a child, always enjoy the world."

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."

"Disability [10w] Unconditional love can turn a child's disability into an advantage."

"Fate [10w] The eternal point where our dreams intersect is called fate."

"But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them on different shelves; nothing more being final about their positions than that they no longer lie side by side. The onlooker who doesn’t know the difficulty of the task might well think in such a case that nothing at all had been achieved."

"If you want to see magic, love someone and see the magical transformation."

"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."

"Writers and storytellers are all liars, poets are the only ones who can write down souls, not just poems."

"There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged."

"You fail because you fear. Be bold. Be fearless."

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses."

"that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are not yet come Thus some things torture us more than they ought, some before they ought and some which ought never to torture us at all. We heighten our pain either by presupposing a cause or anticipation"

"Anger is a tiger that can eat you alive if you are not careful."

"Jealousy [10w] Jealousy's like being reprimanded for a crime you haven't committed."

"When you can overcome the fear of failure, success will not be far away."

"The square root of I is I."

"There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame."

"Love now, not later. Also, love later."