#phil

Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#complacency #corruption #decline #misgovernment #political-philosophy

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better. ↗

— Bohdi Sanders

#excellence #good-books #happin #inspirational #inspirational-life

İnsanoğlu nedense anlayamadığı şeylere kötülemeye meyilli. ↗

— Elif Shafak

#imagination #life #philosophy #truth #writing

Life teach you lessons and those lessons are very painful. ↗

— Adnan Khan

#life-experience #life-lessons #life-philosophy #experience

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#society #experience

Live how you live, feel how you feel and fuck all the phonies in your way. ↗

— Christopher Krovatin

#phonies #life

Never cry for the same reason twice. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#life-experience #life-lessons #life-philosophy #stephen-richards #experience

Any fear can limit the amount of activities you experience or goals you can accomplish. ↗

— Maribelle Boutros

#experience

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful. ↗

— John Dewey

#experience #nature #philosophy-of-life #communication

Experience by itself proves nothing. Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience