#philosophy

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#philosophy #choice

It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#loneliness #philosophy-of-life-people #dreams

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#objectivism #philosophy #taggart #pride

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#enlightenment

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads? ↗

— Plato

#philosophy #enlightenment

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#sun

Don't hate the media; become the media. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#distribute #distribution #diy #done #experimental

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#equality

When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly. ↗

— O.R. Melling

#summer

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty... ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#uncertainty