#philosophy

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#wisdom #age

If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#fucked-up #funny #humor #other #philosophy

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#opinion #philosophy #society #age

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy. ↗

— Gary Wright

#extension #indian #lyrics #music #philosophy

A man leaves his great house because he's bored With life at home, and suddenly returns, Finding himself no happier abroad. He rushes off to his villa driving like mad, You'ld think he's going to a house on fire, And yawns before he's put his foot inside, Or falls asleep and seeks oblivion, Or even rushes back to town again. So each man flies from himself (vain hope, because It clings to him the more closely against his will) And hates himself because he is sick in mind And does not know the cause of his disease. ↗

— Titus Lucretius Carus

#classics #latin #lucretius #philosophy #life

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#inspirational #philosophy #poetry #age

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. ↗

— Albert Camus

#always #find #justify #lack #philosophy

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#truth #age

I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#philosophy #writer #age

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times. ↗

— Mark R. Levin

#broad #conservatism #enduring #experience #magnificent