#philosophic

Ο θάνατος είναι πάντα από μόνος του μια απόδειξη ειλικρίνειας. ↗

— Graham Greene

#philosophical #truth #death

Birth pushes, death pulls; only you can slow the time between. ↗

— Jack Sanger

#death

Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#life

Dreams are doorways into other dimensions that you forget how to open once you’re awake. ↗

— R.M. ArceJaeger

#dreams

I shall try to persuade first the Rulers and soldiers, and then the rest of the community, that the upbringing and education we have given them was all something that happened to them only in a dream. In reality they were fashioned and reared, and their arms and equipment manufactured, in the depths of the earth, and Earth herself, their mother, brought them up, when they were complete, into the light of day; so now they must think of the land in which they live as their mother and protect her if she is attacked, while their fellow citizens they must regard as brothers born of the same mother earth…. That is the story. Do you know of any way of making them believe it?” “Not in the first generation,” he said, “but you might succeed with the second, and later generations. ↗

— Plato

#dreams

Heated is what you get when you rub faith and instinct together. ↗

— Cornelia "Connie D." DeDona

#faith

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

— Stephen Craig

#funny #god #philosophical #funny

When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look. ↗

— Jocelynn Drake

#asylum-tales #humor #ignorance #philosophical #thoughts

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour. ↗

— John Green

#philosophical #realization #humor

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#inspirational #philosophical-reflection #inspirational