#ought

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. ↗

— Criss Jami

#absurdity #art #artist #ecstasy #experiment

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#consciousness #movement #thought-provoking #art

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#art #choosing #politeness #thoughts #your

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#thoughts #travel #art

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#after #basis #chose #deliberations #endless

No matter whether you believe in luck or chance, the final decision is from yourself. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia. ↗

— John Woolman

#back #carefully #concern #discipline #enlargement

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. ↗

— United Nations

#censorship #communication #encroachment #freedom-of-opinion #freedom-of-speech

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#brought #changes #economic #empires #every

Sometimes I feel as though there are two me's, one coasting directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when she's supposed to nod and says what she's supposed to say, and some other, deeper part, the part that worries and dreams... Most of the time they move along in sync and I hardly notice the split, but sometimes it feels as though I'm two whole different people and I could rip apart at any second. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#life #me #thoughts #dreams