#phil

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love, ↗

— Buddha

#self-improvement #wisdom #love

They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter. ↗

— Josephine Hart

#life

You ask me, I'd guess heaven and hell look pretty much the same," I replied. "Only in hell, everything is just a little out of reach. ↗

— Chris F. Holm

#hell #philosophy #religion #religion

One's interest or need does not annul other's right. ↗

— Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri

#animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals #ethics #islam

It's better to have a million small religions with each one containing a great truth. Than one great religion containing a million small truths. ↗

— Carla VanKoughnett

#religion #religion

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#religion-philosophy #religion

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself. ↗

— Celia Rees

#philosophy #nature

Never perceive anything as being inevitable or predestined. The only absolute is uncertainty. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#philosophy #uncertainty #life

Give me matter and i will build a world out of it. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#science #science

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#life