#mol

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#ethics #philosophy #romantic

Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#philosophy #science #romantic

Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#philosophy #physics #science #science

The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or oceans of reality, and have the least damaging leaks possible. ↗

— Jesús Zamora-Bonilla

#philosophy #science #science

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#daniel-defoe #moll-flanders #classics

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#epistimology #ontology #theology #theology

Contrary to popular myth, werewolves myth, werewolves are born, not made. No matter how many times they bite someone, that person will not turn, though they will probably bleed profusely and will definitely be annoyed. ↗

— Molly Harper

#molly-harper #nice-girls-don-t-have-fangs #werewolves #werewolves

Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell." I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #molly-carpenter #harry-dresden

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#brow #built #cannot #demolished #force

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself. ↗

— James Allen

#coerce #command #guidance #him #himself