#los

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#trees

(Jace) "Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?" Only if it falls on Sebastian's head, she thought. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #jace #lol #sebastian #paris

Die! --Gleeson Hedge ↗

— Rick Riordan

#lost-hero #heroes

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#liberalism

I was never aware of any other option but to question everything. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#awareness

I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It’s like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#philosophy #society #weakness #introspection

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dressing #innovation #introspection #melancholy #philosophical

Chico was a small-time hustler and big-time loser who liked to bet the ponies and hit women. He was more successful at the latter. ↗

— J.A. Konrath

#loser #thriller

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #communism #philosophy #politics #communism

Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway. ↗

— Richard Finney

#philosophical #thriller #thriller