#philosophy

Every known thief pretends to be a gentleman at first! ↗

#awareness #boldness #changing-the-world #inspirational #inspirational-attitude

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#philosophy #sister #art

I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called “culture” – and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species. ~ Through the local or regional, through our individual voices, we work to create art that will speak to others who know nothing of us. In our very obliqueness to one another, an unexpected intimacy is born. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#writing-philosophy #writing-process #art

Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy. ↗

— Kate Mulgrew

#compute #does #levels #life #me

In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.) ↗

— Susan Neiman

#enlightenment #philosophy #beauty

What if nobody showed up at Armageddon? ↗

— C.R. Strahan

#humor #inspiration #philosophy #humor

There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect. Thus I lust over the flawless, and fall amorously forceless to the flawed. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#imperfect #kassam #love #perfection #philosophy

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people. ↗

— Jen Knox

#artist #empathy #life #philosophy #truth

Who we are now is all that really matters. ↗