#philosophy

"The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are."

"Let's get physical, physical [10w] All physical contact is meaningful,even if meaningful means sleazy."

"The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit."

"Genesis {Couplet} God spoke the world into existence, reifying an abstraction.Now the Creator's had second thoughts and wishes to utter a retraction."

"Partout où il y a représentation indépendante, le spectacle se reconstitue."

"Sublime natures are seldom clean!"

"...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain."

"He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost."

"If you surround yourself with flowers of love, peace, and kindness, you will always find yourself in a garden of joy and happiness."

"Vices [10w] Cultivate vices;to be without them is not to be."

"Having Words with Words [10w] ”I’ve had a falling out with words,leaving me speechless."

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

"In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world."

"I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority."

"Treat life as if it is the best gift from the universe."

"Finding Fault [10w] + {Couplet} We find in others faultWhenever our wounds perceives salt."

"If you know the brightness of your heart, you will never fear darkness."

"Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world."

"Closed eyes cannot see the light"

"FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy."