#phil

Personally, I prefer Stevie Wonder," confessed the Chink, "but what the hell. Those cowgirls are always bitching because the only radio station in the area plays nothing but polkas, but I say you can dance to anything if you really feel like dancing." To prove it, he got up and danced to the news. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#passion #philosophy #humor

I grew up once, I decided never to do it again ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#humor #life #philosophy #humor

Sometimes it’s better to fail with pride, than to succeed at a price ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#humour #life #philosophy #success #wisdom

Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals. ↗

— Jonathan Kieran

#blogs #books #goodreads #humor #jonathan-kieran

THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem. ↗

— Anne Carson

#philosophy #poetry #religion #humor

While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil. ↗

— Octave Mirbeau

#human-nature #philosophy #love

A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old] ↗

— Kresley Cole

#humor #philosophical-musings #humor

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age ↗

— Isaac Newton

#philosophy #physics #science #stars #age

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#movements #philosophy #politics #business

Without the quest, there can be no epiphany. ↗

— Constantine E. Scaros

#inspirational #philosophical #quest #art