#phil

She had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough. ↗

— Jackson Burnett

#jackson-burnett #life-philosophy #light-vs-heavy #the-past-never-ends #travel

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#because #comment #detail #hegel #i

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#life

Question everything, unless it's the answer ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #philosophy #wisdom #life

Good artists copy; great artists steal. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#artists #philosophy #picasso #art

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#philosophy #pessimism

The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation. ↗

— Osman Bakar

#islam #metaphysics #philosophy #intelligence

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#life

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex. ↗

— Adam Sedgwick

#aim #anger #apex #babel #daring

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#philosophy #theology #change