#philosophical

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#disease #every #history #hypothesis #lie

To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio. ↗

— Arturo Toscanini

#me #napoleon #philosophical #some #struggle

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

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

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#philosophical #humor

If you miss your bus, just start walking. ↗

— Shan McGinley

#inspirational-quotes #inspire #life-goals #life-quotes #perseverance

Es decir..., lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con certeza que va morir algún día. (...) Nadie sabe lo que va a ocurrir. Por eso nosotros, para evolucionar necesitamos la muerte. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #philosophical #wisdom #death

life is fair, truth is faith ↗

— ngr

#faith

Do I ever feel like anything? ↗

— Nyrae Dawn

#pain #philosophical #romance #love