#phil

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#philosophy #courage

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us. ↗

— Epicurus

#death

You'll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you. ↗

— E.J. Koh

#death #family #fantasy #love #philosophy

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#life #literature #philosophy #writing #death

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#speech #thought #words #men

The first duty of a man is to think for himself ↗

— José Martí

#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself ↗

— Alexander Sutherland Neill

#philosophy #unschooling #education

All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#equality

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#filling #formerly #innovations #involved #maintaining

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on. ↗

— Yann Martel

#family #philosophy #death