#philosophical

We go to school so that when we grow up we can make lots of money, and we make lots of money so we can provide for our children, and we have children to provide for our retirement (because we don’t have any money left). ↗

— R.M. ArceJaeger

#philosophical #money

The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#thelema #philosophical

For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#philosophical #philosophical

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#poetry #philosophical

For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless. ↗

— Sean S. Kamali

#agnosticism #agnostics #anti-theism #atheism #atheist

Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music. ↗

— MEDVGNO

#epic-poetry #film-script #philosophical #music

This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this...sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted...why should he run about here and there, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass? from Lord Jim ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#philosophic-pessimism #philosophical-reflection #nature

Man is Nature's most wonderful creature. Torturing him, crushing him, murdering him for his beliefs and ideas is more than a violation of human rights-it is a crime against all humanity. ↗

— Armando Valladares

#political #nature

But no matter what I do, it will always get me, bother me, and you know what this is, what gets me, and will continue to get me throughout my existence? It’s that we as humans will never know the results of the other choice. What would have happened if I chose that instead of this? Naturally, the results or consequences would probably be different, perhaps very different. More importantly, would the other option have been the better choice? We will never know. I will never know. And this will always get me. ↗

— Jack Serv

#nature

يتبدي الوحي, إذن, لا بوصفه من قبيل المعرفة المعطاة المفروضة علي الوعي كسلطة لا سبيل أمامه إلا لمحض الإذعان والخضوع لها, بقدر ما يمثل نوعا من الاستجابة الخلاقة المطلوبة لوضع إنساني مأزوم لا يقدر الوعي; الذي هو بنية تطورية في جوهرها, علي التعاطي معه في مرحلة دنيا من مراحل تطوره. وهكذا فإن الوحي يتبلور كسند ومعين للوعي, ونقطة ارتكاز يستند إليها في سعيه إلي تجاوز أزمة واقعه, ولا يتبلور أبدا كضد ونقيض يفرض نفسه كسلطة متعالية لا يملك الوعي إلا محض التبعية لها. ↗

— علي مبروك

#philosophy #religion #religious #religion