#phil

This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#humor

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#isolationism #political-philosophy #politics #humor

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ↗

— George Carlin

#humor #humour #perspective #philosophie #humor

If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist outside the Church whether it exists inside or not. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#engagement #philosophy #spiritual-warfare #education

And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love me, for I can lose these qualities without losing myself. Where, then, is this Ego, if it be neither in the body nor in the soul? And how love the body or the soul, except for these qualities which do not constitute me, since they are perishable? For it is impossible and would be unjust to love the soul of a person in the abstract and whatever qualities might be therein. We never, then, love a person, but only qualities. Let us, then, jeer no more at those who are honoured on account of rank and office; for we love a person only on account of borrowed qualities. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#love

Funny to think that every day you have ever lived is a yesterday, and you will never live one single tomorrow. But then again, every day is a today when you’re living it. ↗

— Mik Everett

#inspirational #life #philosophy #today #funny

There can be no forced inspiration. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #inspiration #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines. ↗

— Alvin Plantinga

#intelligence

Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto ↗

— Scott Adams

#philosophy #humor

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think. ↗

— George Carlin

#humor #philosophy #subjectivity #humor