#phil

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty... ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#uncertainty

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other. ↗

— Thaddeus Golas

#inspiration #inspirational #inspired #inspiring #philosophy

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. ↗

— Woody Allen

#metaphysics #philosophy #philosophy

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#majority-v-minority #philosophy #mankind

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#self-improvement #wisdom #improvement

TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#politics #wisdom #obedience

It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears. ↗

— Suman Jyoty Bhante

#inspirational #philosophy #quotes #religion #science

Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#melancholy

Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back ↗

— Adam Smith

#economics

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#procrastination