#philosophy

"What if nobody showed up at Armageddon?"

"Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems."

"If you want peace, fill your mind with peaceful thoughts."

"All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge."

"You can never go further than your own thoughts."

"The Fate of Prodigies [10w] Early to peak, early to deal with obsolescence and obscurity."

"Endless Childhood [10w] + {Couplet} Put off summer's endAnd adulthood's vexingburdens shall suspend."

"We travel to see the reflection of our minds on the mirror of changes so that we may enrich ourselves."

"Senility [10w] Senility's like a bottle of Coke that lost its bubbles."

"O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him."

"Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines."

"When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,—or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge’s phrase, for unity in variety."

"Love as if you were created by the universe just to love."

"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."

"Creation "I shake my fist and there's bang.Stars sift like sand through my fingers;each swirl of my wrist a galaxy,every kiss imbued with a bit of me."

"United Negro College Fund: A mind is a terrible thing to waste... ...and so is your paycheck,so don't waste good money on a lost cause."

"The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden."

"One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever."And, "Listen to those quiet, nagging doubts."If you don't know, you don't know what you don't know, you don't know how much you don't know, and you don't know how much you needed to know."

"You came from love, to live in love, to give away love, and to become love."

"The treacherous are ever distrustful."