#phil

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.) ↗

— Carl Sagan

#philosophy #science #design

...if he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted together with the same sinew but in another design. ↗

— Benjamin Percy

#design

You’re trying to carry everything in your life by yourself. And you are falling under the weight of it but that was never God’s intention. He doesn’t want you to carry it yourself. You can’t do it, only God can do that. And that’s what he says, He says: "I never meant for you to go through this by yourself. I wanna go through it with you. I wanna carry it for you. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#christianity #flyleaf #god #inspirational #intention

Leibniz's machine was designed to automate the dreary task of solving moral problems ↗

— Martin Cohen

#design

If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration? ↗

— Jack Norris

#kind #life #philosophy #vegan #vegetarian

Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#philosophy #death

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#life

In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#philosophy #dreams

Don't just follow your dreams; chase them down, grab hold and don't let go. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#inspirational #life #philosophy #dreams

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams. ↗

— Shane Koyczan

#philosophy #dreams