#los

They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You? ↗

— Qur'an

#philosophical-musings #qur-an #religious #inspirational

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek. ↗

— Rumi

#life #motivational #philosophy #self-awareness #self-realization

Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity. ↗

— Chloe Thurlow

#writing #inspirational

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end. ↗

— Plato

#inspirational #motivational #perseverance #philosophy #running

No matter how far you have gone down the road its never too late to stop and reinvent yourself ↗

— rassool jibraeel snyman

#motivational #motivational-inspirational #motivational-quotes #philosophical #philosophical-musings

Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools ↗

— rassool jibraeel snyman

#motivational-inspirational #motivational-quotes #philosophical-musings #philosophy #philosophy-of-life

Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it? ↗

— Gene Rodenberry

#philosophy #intelligence

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