#phil

Philosophy can make people sick. ↗

— Aristotle

#ethics

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. ↗

— Peter Singer

#history #philosophy #ethics

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth? ↗

— Vikram Seth

#philosophical #romantic #equality

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#philosophy #science #science

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#science #science

What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#physics #science

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#think

Prove to me that you are not a figment of my imagination. Am I a computer simulation? Does the door swing both ways? How can something come from nothing? How do you know a line is straight? If animals wanted to be eaten, would it be okay? If time stopped then stared again, would we know about it? What happens when you get scared half to death twice? What is creationism? What is ethical? ↗

— Jessica Park

#humor #philosphy #death

If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting. If you die without loss, you are eternal. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#strength

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#objectivism #philosophy #taggart #acting