#philosophy

"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company."

"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement."

"If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad - and that was the truth about everything."

"In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible."

"Penetration [10w] The difference between truism and an enlightened [10w] is penetration."

"Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature."

"Damn You, TripAdvisor! My penis deserves to be a World Heritage Site,judging by the number of tourists trampling on my balls."

"Septimus has been working too hard"- that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought."

"For an act to be evil, you must first perceive it, process and then conceive it as such. Then these acts are effects. They’re not causes. And by this I mean that these acts are not of Stream. Now we ask the other question again. What does it take for something, here specifically Stream, to be good or evil?"

"If You Can't Think, You've No Right to Speak [10w] Our Constitution's guarantee of free speech specifically excludes fucking idiots."

"when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world."

"With an open mind, you are the imagination of universal consciousness and the creation of the subconscious mind that wanders throughout the universe."

"In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team."

"Rewrite☷Rewrite [10w] Happiness writes new memories;New losses rewrite over old ones."

"Universal consciousness can never die; it can only transform and transcend."

"Il Principe 2015: Lesson 1 - The Balls If humility is what's all important to your adversary,humble yourself before him,and you've got him by the balls."

"If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?"

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

"We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork."

"Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her."