#phil

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. ↗

— Malcolm X

#politics #wrong

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#philosophy #wrong

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#philosophy #evolution

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#literature #philosphy #poetry #reading #read

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#philosophy #silence #logic

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that. ↗

— Norton Juster

#philosophy #quest #reason

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#idiot #infernal-devices #law #nephilim #shadowhunters

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. ↗

— Albert Camus

#truth #free

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#political-philosophy #politics #liberty

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#fiscal-policy #national-debt #political-philosophy #liberty