#philosophy

"Heart My heart jumps every time you walk through the door.It's not love.I have an arrhythmia."

"Witticisms The greatest reward for coming up with some witty turn of phraseis that some day, if you're lucky,it may wind up in a fortune cookieat the very Chinese restaurant you're eating in!But if you get a big head about it,know it wasn't the flattery,it was the MSG."

"Socrates [10w] "I know less than you.That's how smart I am!"

"Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself."

"FBI vs. CIA When a person works for the FBI for 20 years and retires,he gets a watch.When a person works for the CIA for 20 years and retires,he gets watched.I know this not because I'm in law enforcement or with the NSA ~I know this because I have HBO."

"Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability."

"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."

"Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them."

"Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?"

"The Flood that Did Not Subside [10w] What would today's world be,If Noah's dove flew into obscurity?"

"I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real is like."

"Selfie [10w] For the millennial generationa selfie is a family portrait."

"Today I Learned: Delete Today I learnedwhen you delete stuff on your computerit still resides on your hard drive.It's sort of like getting divorcedbut that bitch still lives in your house."

"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."

"The majestic mountain is swimming in the eternal lake of beauty, love, and tranquility."

"Beyond the Place of Turning Back ↺ "Sometimes I wish to fly so far sou⇟hit's stars beyond the place of turning back↺"

"How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?"

"Love the dream to live the dream."

"The pianokeys are black and whitebut they sound like a million colors in your mind"

"My ego is the wall between you and me."