#philosophic

Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#meaning-of-life #philosophical-musings #searching #thinking #intelligence

But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#life

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#human-nature #opinion #perception #philisophical-life #philosophical

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#sociology #life

People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them. ↗

— James McGregor

#inspirational #people #philosophical #inspirational

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#philosophical #inspirational

You have to set somebody free for them to return ↗

— Candice Night

#love #philosophical #inspirational

Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#life-lessons #philosophical #inspirational

Do not be concerned with how others treat you. Be only concerned with how you treat others. ↗

— Julia Heywood

#philosophical-quotations #spiritual-quotes #spiritual-wisdom #inspirational

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real. ↗

— Lactantius

#men