#inking

Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life. ↗

— René Descartes

#happiness #philosophy #purpose #thinking #beauty

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#art #human #limitations #logic #misunderstanding

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#adversary #compromise #conflicting #deprived #due

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#does #figurehead #part #talking #thinking

Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read. ↗

— Marc Wallice

#because #down #everybody #going #head

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#art #down #getting #opposite #something

I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull. ↗

— Paris Hilton

#bull #drinking #hate #i #red

Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs. ↗

— Gregory Hines

#dope #down #drinking #find #got

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him. ↗

— S. E. Hinton

#being #go #him #i #narrator

But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#answer #anyway #doing #how #however