#phil

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#bias #content #contrary #flesh #hard

I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#air force #american #back #base #casting

I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody? ↗

— John Zorn

#beautiful #better #better place #bringing #day

We are all capable of becoming something monstrous. ↗

— Cyraus Foldger

#philosophy-of-life-people #psychology #life

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#create #good #i #just #myself

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#cures #few #good #hardly #like

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#eternity #go #into #life #only

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy. ↗

— John Cheever

#because #been #between #confusion #fiction

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#be true #been #divided #false #generally

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#appealing #both #certain #idols #literature