#los

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#existentialism #philosophers #men

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world. ↗

— Will Durant

#philosopher #philosophy #truth #men

Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more. ↗

— Michel Templet

#philosophy #inspirational

Be yourself, because really, who else can you be...? ↗

— James A. Murphy

#phylosophy #thoughts-on-life #inspirational

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real. ↗

— Lactantius

#men

If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string ↗