#los

Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#meaning-of-life #philosophical-musings #searching #thinking #intelligence

Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#faith #god #humor #idea #inspirational

Einstein's theory, experimentally corroborated for the last hundred years, regardless of how outlandish and opposed to our prejudices (disguised as they are with the 'common sense' costume), is rational, consistent, and intelligible to the layperson - if s/he has the audacity of accepting the unfounded nature of those prejudices. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#science #intelligence

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers. ↗

— W V O Quine

#philosophy #quine #intelligence

Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is. ↗

— Jesús Zamora-Bonilla

#philosophy #science #intelligence

Im Grunde unserer Seele sind wir Raubtiere. Intelligent, unersättlich und schnell. Alles, was wir in ein paar hunderttausend Jahren Entwicklung gegen unsere wahre Natur aufzubieten haben, ist bloß eine dünne Schicht aus Ritualen, die wir Zivilisation nennen. ↗

— David Gray

#intelligenz #leben #mensch #philosophie #raubtier

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails. ↗

— Aberjhani

#civilization #forgiveness #friendship #grace #hope

O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly. ↗

— A Gentleman

#man #mistakes #philospohy #intelligence

I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#loss-of-love #jealousy

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#objectivism #philosophy #taggart #life