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Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects a corpse. The soul. The ... animus. The quiddity of it.'
'Gansey, seriously,' Adam interrupted, to Blue's relief. 'Nobody knows what quiddity is.'
'The whatness, Adam. Whatever it is that makes a person who they are.
- Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven Boys
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Wisdom is being able to see the world for what it is, rather than what you want it to be.
- Patrick F. Rooney
The Angel of Innisfree
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.
- Noah Levine
Dharma Punx: A Memoir
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Topic: Philosophical
Sometimes... Reason and Love are met with a violent ignorance that even what's right gets lost. Our heart bleeds, but when does the blood shed end and the healing begin?
- Solange nicole
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
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We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice.
- Plato
The Republic
Topic: Philosophical
All statistics have outliers.
- Nenia Campbell
Terrorscape
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
You cannot be remade unless you are first broken.
- Steven Erikson
Deadhouse Gates
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. Anything I thought or did was immediately drawn into the debate. Made a stupid remark—why not kill myself? Missed the bus—better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie—maybe I shouldn’t kill myself.
- Susanna Kaysen
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Omnia vincit amor" - "Love conquers all
- Virgil
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?” The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.
- Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children.
- Will Durant
Our Oriental Heritage
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.
- David Richo
Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Relationships
On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.
- Joel Salatin
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Time cannot put anything in your hands until you let go off the time.
- Vishwanath S J
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.
- G.I. Gurdjieff
Views from the Real World
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,
is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
- Khalil Gibran
The Prophet
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak?
- J.E. Seanachaí
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Search of truth is actually a search of strength to handle the truth.
- Shunya
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
- Theodor W. Adorno
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.
- Epictetus
The Discourses
Topic: Philosophical
Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees—which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
I wonder why peopke are so afraid of love. Of different kinds of love. I just don't get it. Why aren't we afraid of racism" Of war? But love? It just doesn't make sense.
- Gail Sidonie Sobat
Chance to Dance for You
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects a corpse. The soul. The ... animus. The quiddity of it.'
'Gansey, seriously,' Adam interrupted, to Blue's relief. 'Nobody knows what quiddity is.'
'The whatness, Adam. Whatever it is that makes a person who they are.
- Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven Boys
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Wisdom is being able to see the world for what it is, rather than what you want it to be.
- Patrick F. Rooney
The Angel of Innisfree
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.
- Noah Levine
Dharma Punx: A Memoir
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Topic: Philosophical
Sometimes... Reason and Love are met with a violent ignorance that even what's right gets lost. Our heart bleeds, but when does the blood shed end and the healing begin?
- Solange nicole
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice.
- Plato
The Republic
Topic: Philosophical
All statistics have outliers.
- Nenia Campbell
Terrorscape
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
You cannot be remade unless you are first broken.
- Steven Erikson
Deadhouse Gates
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. Anything I thought or did was immediately drawn into the debate. Made a stupid remark—why not kill myself? Missed the bus—better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie—maybe I shouldn’t kill myself.
- Susanna Kaysen
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Omnia vincit amor" - "Love conquers all
- Virgil
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?” The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.
- Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children.
- Will Durant
Our Oriental Heritage
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.
- David Richo
Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Relationships
On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.
- Joel Salatin
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Time cannot put anything in your hands until you let go off the time.
- Vishwanath S J
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.
- G.I. Gurdjieff
Views from the Real World
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,
is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
- Khalil Gibran
The Prophet
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak?
- J.E. Seanachaí
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Search of truth is actually a search of strength to handle the truth.
- Shunya
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
- Theodor W. Adorno
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.
- Epictetus
The Discourses
Topic: Philosophical
Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees—which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
I wonder why peopke are so afraid of love. Of different kinds of love. I just don't get it. Why aren't we afraid of racism" Of war? But love? It just doesn't make sense.
- Gail Sidonie Sobat
Chance to Dance for You
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects a corpse. The soul. The ... animus. The quiddity of it.'
'Gansey, seriously,' Adam interrupted, to Blue's relief. 'Nobody knows what quiddity is.'
'The whatness, Adam. Whatever it is that makes a person who they are.
- Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven Boys
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Wisdom is being able to see the world for what it is, rather than what you want it to be.
- Patrick F. Rooney
The Angel of Innisfree
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.
- Noah Levine
Dharma Punx: A Memoir
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Topic: Philosophical
Sometimes... Reason and Love are met with a violent ignorance that even what's right gets lost. Our heart bleeds, but when does the blood shed end and the healing begin?
- Solange nicole
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice.
- Plato
The Republic
Topic: Philosophical
All statistics have outliers.
- Nenia Campbell
Terrorscape
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
You cannot be remade unless you are first broken.
- Steven Erikson
Deadhouse Gates
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. Anything I thought or did was immediately drawn into the debate. Made a stupid remark—why not kill myself? Missed the bus—better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie—maybe I shouldn’t kill myself.
- Susanna Kaysen
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Omnia vincit amor" - "Love conquers all
- Virgil
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?” The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.
- Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children.
- Will Durant
Our Oriental Heritage
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.
- David Richo
Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Relationships
On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.
- Joel Salatin
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Time cannot put anything in your hands until you let go off the time.
- Vishwanath S J
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.
- G.I. Gurdjieff
Views from the Real World
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,
is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
- Khalil Gibran
The Prophet
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak?
- J.E. Seanachaí
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Search of truth is actually a search of strength to handle the truth.
- Shunya
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
- Theodor W. Adorno
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.
- Epictetus
The Discourses
Topic: Philosophical
Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees—which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
I wonder why peopke are so afraid of love. Of different kinds of love. I just don't get it. Why aren't we afraid of racism" Of war? But love? It just doesn't make sense.
- Gail Sidonie Sobat
Chance to Dance for You
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
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