#philosophic

With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea? ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#philosophical #nature

This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this...sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted...why should he run about here and there, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass? from Lord Jim ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#philosophic-pessimism #philosophical-reflection #nature

It's a cold sun that casts long shadows. ↗

— Christopher Carosa

#science #science

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it. ↗

— Voltaire

#philosophical

Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered. ↗

— Linda Collison

#philosophical-musings #the-butterfly-effect #historical-fiction

Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny. ↗

— Wil Zeus

#philosophical #thought-provoking-humourous #thought-provoking

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels. ↗

— Tim Allen

#hateful #levels #loving #mean #metaphysical

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

#cartoon #did #framework #greatest #history

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. ↗

— Felix Adler

#creed #dogma #every #experience #inception

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ↗

— Freda Adler

#chooses #crime #ethical #group #philosophical