#eli

In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means of words that we do not understand at all! Substance, extension, force, matter and soul, are all so many abstractions, figments of the imagination. As for God, it is impossible to know how he is, or even if he is! Once he was the cause of wind, thunder, revolutions. Now he is getting smaller. Besides, I don’t see what use he is. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#god #idealism #language #religion #spirituality

I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideational content sounds very like a first attempt at the consolations of religion, like another way taken by the ego of denying the dangers it sees threatening it in the external world. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#religion #imagination

Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are! ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#religion #love

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#james-bond #loneliness #solitude #the-spy-who-loved-me #love

Love making can produce a child, sex can produce pregnancy ↗

— Anonymousmale

#love #relationships #sex #women #love

that feeling that I could touch the sky? That’s exactly how you make me feel.” (Ray) ↗

— Charles Sheehan-Miles

#deep-love #feeling #love

I think only when you are truly alone can you see you never were. ↗

— Kelly Moran

#book-quotes #loneliness-quotes #love-quotes #romance #love

Do you know how hard it is to find someone who can reciprocate your feelings? ↗

— Yelena Black

#love #love

I began to see that Wendy had something Tiger Lily hadn't even known she was supposed to have. Of all the things Tiger Lily had thought she might have to be for Peter-strong, brave; to be big and to keep up-she had never thought that the one thing he wanted most from her was simply to show that she believed in him, always and without fail. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#believe #love #love-triangle #peter-pan #tiger-lily

I do care, goddamn it! Have you been listening? I. Love. You. I never really knew what that meant until you. ↗

— Shayla Black

#delicious #luc-traverson #love