#los

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#political-philosophy #political

If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#philosophy #political-science #social-science #science

Wisest is she who knows she does not know. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#self-knowledge #knowledge

When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the “10 second heartbreak.” That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember… ↗

— Nina Guilbeau

#heartbreak #heartbroken #loss #mourning #heartbreak

Do I hear a challenge?” she whispers, “Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#challenge #kiara-westford #resistance

When one person is missing the whole world seems empty. ↗

— Pat Schweibert

#loss #mourning #tears

I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#loss #tears

Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#practice #satisfaction #satisfaction

If the moment is everthing, then everything is time. ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#philosophy #time #wisdom #life

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. ↗

— Jane Austen

#life