#philosophy

Smoking will probably kill me, but so will natural selection. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#humorous-philosophy #humorous-quotations #humor

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humor #philosophy #humor

The stalker, meanwhile, stepped into the road. Didn’t even check for traffic. There wasn’t any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker. ↗

— Graham Parke

#humor #philosophy #humor

Lend me your ears and you can borrow my mind ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #philosophy #humor

True love means knowing that your love may never be returned, and loving all the more because of it. ↗

— Michel Templet

#philosophy #love

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#science #science

Sometimes... Reason and Love are met with a violent ignorance that even what's right gets lost. Our heart bleeds, but when does the blood shed end and the healing begin? ↗

— Solange nicole

#love #new-beginnings #philosophy #solange #love

Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees—which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#ecology #philosophy #diversity

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#trees

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#buddhism