#phil

If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love. ↗

— Richard Kearney

#narrative #philosophy-of-life #love

Sometimes you need to move away before you can see where you are ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#love #philosophy #thinker #travel #wisdom

most psychologists/philosophers we've learned about have experienced severe depressions, attempted suicide, were considered 'freaks' or 'insane' by their peers, locked themselves in their rooms, felt socially isolated, were either celibate or extremely promiscuous, and rarely found 'love ↗

— Megan Boyle

#psychology #love

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#inspirational

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs. ↗

— Aristotle

#philosophical #inspirational

It saddens me beyond my tears that love is lost within the fears. ↗

— Lynn C. Tolson

#inspirational #philosophical #inspirational

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#music #philosophy #inspirational

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision? ↗

— Victor Hugo

#life #philosophy #inspirational

I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#philosophy #simplicity #imagination

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#marriage #philosophy #inspirational