#phil

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#allegorical #arbitrary #attaches #be true #categories

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#detritus #philosophy #stardust #architecture

Jakarta telah menjadi sekadar tempat bertahan hidup, bukan tempat hidup yang mampu memberi arti keberadaan kepada penghuni yang tinggal di dalamnya. ↗

— Avianti Armand

#philosophy #architecture

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#martial-arts #philosophy #politics #art

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution! ↗

— Albert Einstein

#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think. ↗

— Paul Auster

#courage

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well.... ↗

— René Magritte

#philosophy #art

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies ↗

— John Fowles

#philosophy #art

I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. ...this book...is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. ↗

— Stephen King

#writers-on-writing #writing-advice #writing-from-the-heart #writing-philosophy #art