#phil

Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity. ↗

— Charles S. Weinblatt

#bigotry #equality #justice #philosophy #politics

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. ↗

— Max Ehrmann

#inspirational #philosophical #beauty

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#objectivism #philosophy #taggart #beauty

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#philosophy #love

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. ↗

— Kakuzō Okakura

#tea #teaism #beauty

But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#norman-mailer #philip-roth #solipsism #beauty

We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos. ↗

— Colin Meloy

#mystery #philosophy #beauty

To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#change

What a more beautiful world this would be if we didn't wait til people were dead before we honored their spirit. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#inspiration #life #life-and-living #philosophy #philosophy-of-life

O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him. ↗

— Plato

#moderation #philosophy #wisdom #beauty