#philosophy

"When every heart is filled with peace and every mind is searching for peace, how can there be war?"

"Treat everyone you meet as if they were you."

"Treaty with Tripoli, Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;"

"The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones."

"You are where you always wanted to be; so enjoy the beauty of life."

"Spineless "How do you know which invertebrate lacks resolution if they're all spineless?"

"Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians."

"Not a good book. It attempts to take a complex subject and make it assessable to the layman with cartoons, and in this effort it fails. Moreover, the authors often take biased stances, and while I agree with them for the most part it nonetheless detracts from any scholarly offerings in which they wish to partake."

"One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated."

"War [10w] Fight wars not to win, but so our enemies don't."

"Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it."

"Regret [10w] Regret's more about lost opportunities than about paths we've chosen."

"In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy."

"Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics."

"I’ve always hated the “Who are you?"question. This is a philosophical inquiry. Answering that question is why we’re on earth. You can’t answer it in thirty seconds or in an elevator."

"The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play"

"Your thoughts are magnets. You attract what you think, and it becomes your reality."

"Wedding Veil [10w] + {Couplet} A wedding veil's of no availbecause virginity's a fairy-tale."

"Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real."

"Love vs. Control [10w] A lover you can control is not worthy of having."