#phil

The minister and the priest teach that the organization is greater. No great philosophy has ever come from an organization, but from an individual whose research has been a personal study of God and ITS ways. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#come #ever #god #great #greater

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#life

Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak? ↗

— J.E. Seanachaí

#life-lesson #philosophy #wisdom #writing #life

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#philosophy #skepticism #virtue #well

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #jesus-shock #philosophy #pleasure

I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love. ↗

— Bernhard Schlink

#philosophy #beauty

Perhaps this was the first instance of that quiet way of "speaking for" a place not yet occupied, or at least not improved as much as it may be, which their descendants have practised, and are still practising so extensively. Not Any seems to have been the sole proprietor of all America before the Yankees [...] At any rate, I know that if you hold a thing unjustly, there will surely be the devil to pay at last. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #philosophy #nature

I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#bob #day #did #get #i

If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#becomes #caring #heart #love #object

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. ↗

— Anonymous

#faith #god #love #philosophy #truth