#philosophy

"Dreams come true if we can pursue them by overcoming the fear of failure."

"Pedestals [10w] People should not be placed on pedestals unless they're stuffed."

"Be persistent. Success is not far away."

"Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is."

"Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all."

"We often concentrate on the negative side of humanity. However, humanity is growing and maturing everyday and showing signs of a better future."

"Hi-Yo Silver! Away! [10w] "Kimosabe, me wanna fuckum Pamela, pronto.My teepee's blue."Tonto"

"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep"

"Your true friends echo your own philosophies back at you."

"See the moon? It hates us."

"Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless."

"Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity."

"As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid."

"Premature Evacuation [10w] I've stopped all my relationships short,not unlike this poem."

"Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians."

"Listen to the Wisdom of Shakespeare 'To thine own self be true and fuck'em till they're back and blue."

"Too Beautiful for Words [10w] + [10w] When nature presents us with miracles too beautiful for words,it is either a mountain, a beach, or a baby."

"Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right."

"My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay."

"The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art."