#philosophy

"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."

"The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true."

"New Year's Revolving Door [10w] + [10w] + {Couplet} 2015's revolution commences with the overthrow of New Year's resolution.Seek not absolutionfor our weak character's immune to evolution."

"See the moon? It hates us."

"The fire of kindness can melt the most hateful heart."

"How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfet raigns."

"No man was ever wise by chance"

"...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy."

"There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter."

"Nobody is good or bad. They are either strong or weak. Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations. Weak people, many a times, do not even realise how low they have fallen."

"Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility."

"Sometimes you wish the world would be a better place and sometimes you wish the world was a better place. Only the great understanding of the difference of the time between the past and present moment will make it a better place."

"€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff."

"The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things."

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."

"Sometimes God is Drunk [10w] Satan's sudden appearance means God is on a drinking binge."

"One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did."

"Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness."

"Our imagination is bigger than this universe."

"My kiss is my promise written in my heart with color of your love."