#philosophic

Everything you know gained from experience ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#experience

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest, and finish finally and infamously as heretics and apostates. No, too much faith never brings anything good... ↗

— Milan Kundera

#dogma #faith #history #machiavellian #moderation

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys ↗

— George Orwell

#inspirational #philosophical #freedom

Am Anfang war Gott? It may have been true, but it was not germane. ↗

— Stephen Craig

#funny #god #philosophical #funny

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#kahlan #philosophical #inspirational

It is not what we know that scares us, it is what we do not ↗

— A.G. Phillips

#inspirational #philosophical-reflection #scared #inspirational

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal. ↗

— Miriam Darnell

#philosophical #inspirational

The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well. ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #philosophical #poetry #poets #wisdom

You always look on the dark side of life. I believe in capturing the moment...Joy is so fleeting. You never know when it might be snatched away. ↗

— Susan Wiggs

#optimism #philosophical #life

I always see the light at the end of the tunnel before I enter the cave ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#philosophical #reality #life