#philosophy

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. ↗

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#freedom #inspirational #lateral-thinking #philosophy #rationalism

You have to choose your future regrets. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#future #life #philosophy-of-religion #rationality #wisdom

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls. ↗

— Heraclitus

#heraclitus #philosophy #wisdom #freedom

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#psychology #freedom

La liberté de l'esprit est le seul bien, peut-être, qui soit plus précieux que la paix. C'est que la paix, sans elle, n'est que servitude. ↗

— André Comte-Sponville

#freedom-of-thought #liberté #liberté-de-pensée #paix #peace

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#philosophy #death

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#being #comedy #could #done #goal

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#friends #friendship #philosophy #silence #friendship

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#war #art