#phil

Experience is the treasure of any persona. ↗

— Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

#philosophy-of-life #experience

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed. ↗

— Richard Bach

#anger

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#choices #choices-and-consequences #conclusions #consequences #decisions

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence. ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#life

Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it. ↗

— John Dewey

#science-vs-religion #faith

Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith. ↗

— Jojo Moyes

#faith

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #faith #god #jesus-shock #philosophy

Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#design

Whatever is dependently co-arisen That is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation Is itself the Middle Way. ↗

— Nāgārjuna

#design

...if he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted together with the same sinew but in another design. ↗

— Benjamin Percy

#design