#philosophy

"Men Be Forewarned! [20w] A man caught in the embrace of the wrong womanis like having his penis caught in a bear trap."

"Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being."

"Yesterday misspent can't be recall'dVanity makes beauty contemptibleWisdom is more valuable than riches."

"If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now."

"Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe."

"The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity."

"if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like"

"I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids."

"Rebellious Fish [10w] Sometimes swimming against the current turns you into glazed salmon."

"Retail Haiku [7w] LollapaloozaLiquidation Blowout Sale.Everything Must Go!"

"This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death."

"Sometimes Magic is What Disappears [10w] + {Couplet} Love's tragic, not ecstatic;with finespun change, disappears the magic."

"Some writers write about love; some writers write with love."

"With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note."

"Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity."

"Don't hate the media; become the media."

"Ruth Whither thou goest, I will go ~as long as it's to the mall.I heard Dillard's is having an 80% off sale!"

"You are the byproduct of your level of consciousness, thoughts, and actions."

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."