#cs

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#philosophy #problems

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#freedom #history #learn #lose #politics

I find it kind of funny. I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had. ↗

— Tears For Fears

#donnie-darko #gary-jules #lyrics #mad-world #dreams

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#misattributed #misattributed-to-poe #poe-singer #heart

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#animal-rights #animal-testing #animal-welfare #animals #cosmetics

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. ↗

— Aristotle

#philosphy #self-discovery #enemy

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. ↗

— Aristotle

#philosophy #self-discovery #enemy

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#wonder

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. ↗

— Malcolm X

#politics #wrong

Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#jesus #morality #scripture #scripture