#phil

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#philosophy #theory

...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he. ↗

— Plato

#love #philosophy #truth #virtue #beauty

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#cycles #elements #life #longevity #nature

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#accident #automobile #bracket #girdle #higher

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#best #country #czech #dedicated #highly

History should be written as philosophy. ↗

— Voltaire

#philosophy #should #written

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#become #begins #continue #contradictions #find

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#been #big #big time #city #ever

I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult. ↗

— Emma Watson

#been #bros #conflict #difficult #education

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#biography #even #fiction #history #literature