#philosophy

"All I want is a peaceful place where flowers can bloom, birds can sing, and the mind can fly with joy."

"Good god it's great to be a Bull Mongoni!"

"If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon."

"To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature."

"Before you hate something you should try to understand it."

"A dog is the most joyful friend that you can have."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

"A starry night moon looks at you with admiration because in her eyes you are a star."

"Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?"

"A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur."

"Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point"

"It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth."

"Don’t wait for opportunity in front of a closed door—wander until you find the open one."

"Poetry in a Bottle [10w] If you could bottle poetry you'd have one addictive drink."

"The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment..."

"The only safe thing is to take a chance."

"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."

"...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail."

"We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality."

"Teenagers [10w] Teenagers are the lone survivors of a ruthless hormonal holocaust."