#phil

life is fair, truth is faith ↗

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ↗

— Mark Twain

#science

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#reason #science #science

In the letter he left for the coroner he had explained his reasoning (for suicide): that life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision. ... Alex showed me a clipping from the Cambridge Evening News. 'Tragic Death of "Promising" Young Man.' ... The verdict of the coroner's inquest had been that Adrian Flinn (22) had killed himself 'while the balance of his mind was disturbed.' ... The law, and society, and religion all said it was impossible to be sane, healthy, and kill yourself. Perhaps those authorities feared that the suicide's reasoning might impugn the nature and value of life as organised by the state which paid the coroner? ↗

— Julian Barnes

#suicide #death

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#directions #hate #literature #literature-quotes #love

The only thing that I am completely certain of after this experience is that I am no longer afraid of death. ↗

— Michael Blain

#philosophy #soul #death

When our perceptions change our lives arrange… ↗

— Namasté Anonymous

#fear #freedom #hope #inspiration #inspirational

What you believe shall be~comings... ↗