#phil

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#enlightenment

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads? ↗

— Plato

#philosophy #enlightenment

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#sun

Don't hate the media; become the media. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#distribute #distribution #diy #done #experimental

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#equality

When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly. ↗

— O.R. Melling

#summer

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty... ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#uncertainty

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other. ↗

— Thaddeus Golas

#inspiration #inspirational #inspired #inspiring #philosophy

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. ↗

— Woody Allen

#metaphysics #philosophy #philosophy

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#majority-v-minority #philosophy #mankind