#phil

You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything! ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#life #philosophy #short-story #life

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#human-nature #opinion #perception #philisophical-life #philosophical

Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully ↗

— Kate Spade

#life-philosophy #life

As I was walking up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd go away. ↗

— Hugh Mearns

#philosphy #life

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#objectivism #philosophy #taggart #life

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#sociology #life

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent. ↗

— Peter Singer

#philosophy #reason #suffering #life

Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above the smoking ruins of your world-cities. But tonight I would like to think of one man, a lone individual, a man without name or country, a man whom I respect because he has absolutely nothing in common with you - MYSELF. Tonight I shall meditate upon that which I am. ↗

— Henry Miller

#life

When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes. ↗

— Henry Miller

#life

Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique. ↗

— D.B. Harrop

#life-lessons #life-philosophy #love #respect-yourself #respecting-others