#los

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way. ↗

— Rollo May

#running

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think ↗

— Socrates

#philosophy #teaching

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#teaching

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#teaching

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#philosophy #wonder #wonder

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. ↗

— Malcolm X

#politics #wrong

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#philosophy #wrong

I wish I could help you" I whisper. You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#comfort #kiara #comfort

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#philosophy #evolution

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#literature #philosphy #poetry #reading #read