#philosophy

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#concepts #concerned #familiar #long #mean

People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And it doesn't matter if the sickness is cancer or if it's depression. Sometimes the drugs work and sometimes they don't. Sometimes the drugs work for a while and then they stop. Sometimes the alternative stuff works and sometimes it doesn't. And sometimes you wonder if no outside interference makes any difference at all; if an illness is like a storm, if it simply has to run its course and, at the end of it, depending on how robust you are, you will be alive. Or you will be dead. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#illness #philosophy #family

A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet. ↗

— E.J. Koh

#death #family #fantasy #love #philosophy

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#earlier #evolved #filmmaker #films #how

The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely spread out. For nothing is ever added to it or subtracted from it. It follows that the movement of atoms today is no different from what it was in bygone ages and always will be. So the things that have regularly come into being will continue to come into being in the same manner; they will be and grow and flourish so far as each is allowed by the laws of nature. ↗

— Titus Lucretius Carus

#lucretius #nature #philosophy #universe #age

Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#religion #religion

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#i #known #life #like #makes

Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last. ↗

— Justina Chen

#momento-mori #philosophy-of-life #beauty

Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#philosophy #work #beauty

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#believe #comes #everything #follow #follow your heart