#philosophical

I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

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إن القناع الذى يغلف الإنسان ليس ثيابه وحدها, فجلده ثوب آخر.. ولحمه وعظمه كلها ثياب.. أما هو نفسه, فبعيد.. بعيد.. تحت هذه الأقمشة السميكة من اللحم والدم. ↗

— مصطفى محمود

#philosophical #inspirational

You know what turns dirt into diamonds?" "Pressure. Weight. Heat..." "The geological equivalent of torture. ↗

— Laura Argiri

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There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean. ↗

— K.M. Douglas

#nature #philosophical #inspirational

I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#life

Listen." Jennifer reverted, "I didn't mean anything by all of that before. I understand what you were trying to do and ..." She struggled for the right words. "Sweetie, like love, people don't live inside of life, life lives inside of you. Open yourself up to it and there's no stopping your heart. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#fiction-novel #love #philosophical #philosophy #philosophy-of-life

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

#philosophical #philosophical-musings #life

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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