#phil

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#writing-inspiration #writing-philosophy #inspirational

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#philosophy #men

You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius say' or the Nietzsche guy from Mystery Men that's always saying 'when you walk on the ground, the ground walks on you. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#men

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all. ↗

— Criss Jami

#fortunate #fortune #happiness #inspirational #negativity

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#inspirational #philosophy #inspirational

The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons.They arise from sense perception,and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed. ↗

— Anonymous

#life-philosophy #inspirational

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. ↗

— James Carroll

#meditation #philosophy #relaxation #tranquility #inspirational

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#political-philosophy #inspirational

خرج جوادٌ من مكانٍ غير معروف حمَلَنا حيثُ ذُقنا هُنا كلُ العِشق وحتى لم نعُد نحيا كذلك، هذا الطَعمُ! خمرٌ، نستقيهِ على الدوام. ↗

— جلال الدين الرومي

#inspirational #life-philosophy #love #lovers #inspirational

الحقيقة يمكن أن تتخذ ألف شكل لأعيننا إذا اتخذنا ألف موقع نلاحظها منه .. و إن شهادة الحواس سوف تظل تنقل لنا مراتب مختلفة من الحقيقة كلها نسبية بحسب الظروف التي نشاهدها فيها .. ↗

— مصطفى محمود

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