#exist

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #life #pondering #humor

Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#life #thought-provoking #imagination

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules ↗

— Albert Camus

#morality #ethics

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#metaphysics #metaphysics

There is scarcely any passion without struggle. ↗

— Albert Camus

#passion #struggle #passion

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. ↗

— Rollo May

#myths #myth

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him. ↗

— Rollo May

#love #love

Don’t you know what god is? God is everything and God is nothing; for the perfection created by man cannot be anything other than nothing. They decided to give a name to nothingness, and thereby the made it become something. Like you… God, who is nothing, can no longer be nothing since he is God. You could be a god for men. They need to give a body to nothingness so that nothingness can be seen and touched-at least with the imagination. ↗

— Aldo Palazzeschi

#god #insanity #nothingness #religion #seek

I just look around and say, I'm a mess, I don't know why I do things ↗

— Mike Tyson

#funny #funny

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#extinction #gaede #god #physics #imagination