#philosophy

"The Poet's Job [10w] + {Couplet} Trigger memory, explode an emotion;the poet must create commotion....................................................­....................."

"Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be."

"An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it."

"He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it."

"Love [10w] Love is a time machineset to your perfect present"

"Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live."

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

"The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size."

"The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit."

"Leaps of Faith [10w] Like religion, leaps of faith are behind all idealistic movements."

"Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences."

"You Can't Win [10w] Every bitch is a witch;every wife brings you strife."

"Note to Self: Patent #10w Diving Mask for fish filled with water when oceans disappear."

"Two things amazes me the most, the beauty of nature and the power of my thoughts."

"Ageing [10w] There's no such thing as age -- only degrees of opacity."

"Philosophy is the music of a judgmental mind and imaginative heart."

"With the wind of love, let your heart dance like a flower."

"قال لنفسه إنه لا نجاة له إلا بالجنون. الجنون وحده هو الذي يتسع للإيمان والكفر، للمجد والخزي، للحب والخداع، للصدق والكذب، أما العقل فكيف يتحمل هذه الحياة الغريبة؟ كيف يشيم ألق النجوم وهو مغروس حتى قمة رأسه في الوحل؟!"

"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!"

"Privacy [10w] Why someone prefers his privacy is itself a private matter."