#phil

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#poetry #philosophical

For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless. ↗

— Sean S. Kamali

#agnosticism #agnostics #anti-theism #atheism #atheist

For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements gives us organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless. ↗

— Sean Kamali

#agnosticism #agnostics #anti-theism #atheism #atheist

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#philosophy #motivational

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#rules

The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents. ↗

— Leonard Peikoff

#philosophy #motivational

Two wrongs' create an additional problem. 'A wrong' plus 'A right' creates a remorse. 'Two rights' create a solution. ↗

— Emmanuel Aghado

#morality #motivational #philosophy #reason #wisdom

To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall]. ↗

— Ernesto Guevara

#revolution #war #men

The question of good and the nature of evil will always be one of philosophy’s most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself. If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth clichés lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind’s destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#janet-fitch #philosophy #society #white-oleander #motivational

The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind ↗

— rassool jibraeel snyman

#motivational #philosophical #philosophical-musings #philosophiy-of-life #philosophy