#phil

To attempt to describe how music pervades and flavors a life feels a little like an invasion of privacy, even if the privacy is my own. Listening to music,...is finally the most inward of acts--so inward that even language, even the language of thought, can come to seem intrusive...After all these procedures the unbreachable mysteriousness of music remains intact. The book can never be more than an interruption. Afterward, the listening begins again, to generate, in turn, other and completely different books. ↗

— Geoffrey O'Brien

#listening #music #philosophy #imagination

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#inspiration #liberty #political-philosophy #strength #tyranny

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame. ↗

— Stephen King

#philosophy #inspirational

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#christian-living #christianity #gift #god #inspirational

You can chose if you want to be imagined or remembered. ↗

— Saahil Prem

#life-lessons #philosophy #imagination

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #lecture #nonfiction #philosophy #self-reliance

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#inspirational #language #virginia-woolf #writing-philosophy #inspirational

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#kahlan #philosophical #inspirational

The treacherous are ever distrustful. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#gandalf #inspirational #philosophy #truth #inspirational

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality. ↗