#phil

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#philosophy #politics #life

Distraction leads to Destruction! ↗

— Dhruv Gandhi

#lesson-for-life #life-lessons #moral #philosophy #wisdom

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#dreams

În clipa când ți se impune să nu te gândești la un lucru, te vei gândi doar la el, obsesiv. Interdicția devine obligație. ↗

— Jean-Claude Carrière

#philosophy #psychology #inspirational

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#contemplation #creativity #days #eat #expression

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#belief #facts #finding #harmony #inquiring

She had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough. ↗

— Jackson Burnett

#jackson-burnett #life-philosophy #light-vs-heavy #the-past-never-ends #travel

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#because #comment #detail #hegel #i

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#life

Question everything, unless it's the answer ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #philosophy #wisdom #life