#philosophic

A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old] ↗

— Kresley Cole

#humor #philosophical-musings #humor

Without the quest, there can be no epiphany. ↗

— Constantine E. Scaros

#inspirational #philosophical #quest #art

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us. ↗

— Epicurus

#death

Do I ever feel like anything? ↗

— Nyrae Dawn

#pain #philosophical #romance #love

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#contexts #historical #legal #limited #philosophical

If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?" I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?" To shrug. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#strength

If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power, that is the simple sense of the ontological proof. And if there is art enough a lie can enlighten us as well as the truth. What is the truth anyway, that truth? As we know ourselves we are fake objects, fakes, bundles of illusions. Can you determine exactly what you felt or thought or did? ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#art

No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics. ↗

— A Gentlemen

#evil-jinn #evil-men #inspirational #philosophical #wise

Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#philosophy #philosophy-of-life #thinkers #thinking #life

No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#life-and-living #philosophical #philosophy-of-life #spontaneity #death