#phil

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. ↗

#diversity #political-philosophy #democracy

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#cancer

They don't know it, but they are doing it. ↗

— Karl Marx

#philosophy #ideology

as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#fiction #ideology #imaginary #philosophy #real

Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole. ↗

— B.W. Powe

#opinions #philosophy #value #ideology

If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #optimistic #philosophy #wisdom #dreams

I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries. ↗

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

#modernity #philosophy #ideology

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#philosophy #wisdom #wise

To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood in the land of sleep. ↗