#phil

People get so frightened for no reason, but I'll tell you, to live with no purpose is a far more frightening proposition... You bring yourself to say yes when you always thought the only possible answer was no, and your whole world changes. ↗

— Liz Rosenberg

#philosophy-of-life #purpose #change

Thats not a bad word, hate and war are bad words, fuck isnt. ↗

— Judy Blume

#life #philosophy #truth #wisdom #humor

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#choose #free #freedom #give #having

Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #philosophy #age

That was how people got through life, he supposed: by acknowledging death and telling it, “Not today. ↗

— Molly Ringle

#life #philosophy-of-life #survival #death

My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today. ↗

— Michael Michele

#mother #other #people #philosophy #problem

Through their donations and work for voluntary organizations, the charitable rich exert enormous influence in society. As philanthropists, they acquire status within and outside of their class. Although private wealth is the basis of the hegemony of this group, philanthropy is essential to the maintenance and perpetuation of the upper class in the United States. In this sense, nonprofit activities are the nexus of a modern power elite. ↗

— Teresa Odendahl

#clinton #hegemony #non-profit #philanthropy #power-elite

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#being #determining #earth #heavenly #him

Every known thief pretends to be a gentleman at first! ↗

— Dhruv Gandhi

#awareness #boldness #changing-the-world #inspirational #inspirational-attitude

I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called “culture” – and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species. ~ Through the local or regional, through our individual voices, we work to create art that will speak to others who know nothing of us. In our very obliqueness to one another, an unexpected intimacy is born. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#writing-philosophy #writing-process #art