#phil

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#poetry #thought

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#philosophy #scientific-process #truth #perception

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way. ↗

— Rollo May

#running

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think ↗

— Socrates

#philosophy #teaching

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#teaching

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#teaching

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#literature #philosphy #poetry #reading #read

Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole. ↗

— B.W. Powe

#opinions #philosophy #value #ideology

If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #optimistic #philosophy #wisdom #dreams

I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries. ↗

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

#modernity #philosophy #ideology