#philosophy

"Man is the measure of all things', said the Sophist Protagora (c. 485-410 B.C.). By that he meant that the question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a person's needs."

"Love is the magic, mystery, and the beauty of life."

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."

"Take it easy, but take it."

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

"What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself."

"We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself."

"Your level of consciousness depends on your love and understanding of this universe and all its contents."

"As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new."

"One Poet, 20 Months, 6000 Poems [10w] Let me take this breath... to celebrate my 6000th poem."

"When superstitions infect you, it controls your mind."

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

"The Phenomenon of Life {Couplet} The potter's some man of clay who's molding clay,a robot making an automaton;Every day we recreate ourselves from what bricks we're made,how wondrous life's phenomenon!"

"It's a philosophical minefield!"Cabal had a brief mental image of Aristotle walking halfway across an open field before unexpectedly disappearing in a fireball. Descartes and Nietzsche looked on appalled. He pulled himself together."

"An enlightened life can be so powerful that it can illuminate the whole world."

"Imaginary Friends [10w] My imaginary friend insulted me by calling me real."

"A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?"

"The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires."

"The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing."