#philosophic

Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't stop to think or reason. He acts on instinct, like a stable animal, convinced he's doing good, that he's always right, and sanctimoniously proud to go around f***ing up ... anyone he perceives to be different from himself, be it because of skin color, creed, language, nationality, or ... leisure habits. What the world needs is more thoroughly evil people and fewer borderline pigheads. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#humor

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dressing #innovation #introspection #melancholy #philosophical

Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway. ↗

— Richard Finney

#philosophical #thriller #thriller

It is the darkness that makes the light visible, and not the other way around. ↗

— Nancy Venable Raine

#spiritual-growth #spiritual-growth

To be, or not to be: what a question! ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#faust #funny #humor #marlowe #philosophical-humor

Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are ↗

— rassool jibraeel snyman

#philosophical #philosophy-of-life #beauty

To deny the existence of a God and more specifically the Creator God of Christianity is not based upon a philosophical issue, but rather a moral one. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#philosophical-inquiry #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#metaphysics #philosophical-reflection #philosophy-of-religion #plato #r-alan-woods

Reality is such an elusive concept. ↗

— Laura Gilfillan

#thought-provoking #thought-provoking

In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being born, eggshaped, silverplated, phallic, time thrusting itself gleaming through the worn and worthless husk of the microsecond previous, halting, beginning to show the slow and infinitesimal accreations of decay in the clocking away of life in a mechanism encoded at the moment of conception, withering, shunted aside by time's next orgasmic thrust, and all to the beating of some galactic heart, to voices, a madman's mutterings from a snare in the web of the world. ↗

— William Gay

#poetic #southern-gothic #home