#phil

Trying to change the outside by making changes to the outside, is like trying to make your lips red in your reflection by putting lipstick on the mirror! ↗

— Odille Rault

#law-of-attraction-quotes #life-philosophy #loa #change

The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new. ↗

— Charles Eisenstein

#crises #economy #education #gift-economy #money

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power. (Žižek, S. "Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks." London Review of Books 33.2 (2011): 9-10. ) ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#philosophy #political-science #public #wikileaks #age

Just as sometimes I wondered if Grandpa had ever existed, sometimes I wondered if I truly existed myself. As I was running, I could see myself from outside myself: a skinny girl with the flapping shorts and too- big a T-shirt, always watching the other girls at school, a girl in a pink bedroom sitting with a book propped on her knees, the words she was reading entering her mind, some sticking like gluey never to be forgotten, others disappearing instantly, I could remember everything and remember nothing. I would watch a movie and recall every scene as if I had written the script, then watch another movie another day and be unable to recall it at all. ↗

— Alice Jamieson

#amnesia #dissociation #dissociative #dissociative-identity-disorder #memory

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #philosophy #change

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#truth #change

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates ↗

— Dan Millman

#philosophy #puzzle #world #change

Sublime natures are seldom clean! ↗

— Longinus

#decreation #philosophy #nature

I didn’t want to write SF about people who Sold The Moon or were the big Earth-shattering Newtons-Pasteurs-Einsteins-Hawkings of the future. I wasn’t interested in the people who shaped the future. I was more interested in people who were shaped by the future. People who were products of their environment. ↗

— Joe Clifford Faust

#writing-philosopy #inspirational

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#inspirational #philosophy #inspirational