#phil

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#philosophical #change

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#philosophy #physics #relativity #science #love

When YOU stop believing one person in the world cannot make a difference; differences in the world will be made. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#change-the-world #homeless #humanity #humanity-and-society #inspiration

That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't deserve, precisely because he didn't deserve it--that would be true love and kindness and brotherhood. Else what's love for? If a man deserves a job, there's no virtue in giving it to him. Virtue is the giving of the undeserved. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#philosophical #virtue #love

Everything has its own equilibrium point. ↗

— Nithisup

#love #philosophy-of-life #rich #life

In that light, philosophy is not so much--or not simply--'the love of wisdom,' but instead marks the passage from wonder as a noun to wonder as a verb. Philosophy is the love of wisdom to the extent that it remains an incitement to it. ↗

— Michael Munro

#wisdom #wonder #love

Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live. ↗

— Harry G. Frankfurt

#love #philosophy #love

You can change your mind, don't let your mind change you ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #philosophy #wisdom #change

I was the Titanic and the iceberg all at once. ↗

— Jeremy Glass

#love #relationships #love

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. ↗