#is

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever ↗

— Westminster Shorter Catechism

#history-of-philosophy #meaning-of-life #motto #motto-in-life #reformed

What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#life

Lot's of things in life aren't right, but most things get better with time. ↗

— Anna Myers

#life

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#irony #justice #punishment #life

Was my life going to go on like this forever, totally uneventful? Alternating between unfulfilled expectations and expected disappointments? ↗

— Eva Heller

#expectation #life #life

Wisdom—seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But the genuine philosopher—as it seems to us, my friends?—lives "unphilosophically" and "unwisely," above all imprudently, and feels the burden and the duty of a hundred attempts and temptations of life—he risks himself constantly, he plays the wicked game. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#wisdom #life

Because, I don’t trust a word out of your mouth. You screw with my head and my heart. I’m done. I’m done letting you into my life to trample on my emotions. ↗

— J.B. McGee

#gabby-gerhart #mending #this-trilogy #life

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#attention #been #complaint #confine #consideration

The more I learn, the more I yearn. ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

#living #philosophy #philosophy-of-life #life

I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#because #bush #dislike #dislikes #i