#philosophy

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#political-philosophy #inspirational

خرج جوادٌ من مكانٍ غير معروف حمَلَنا حيثُ ذُقنا هُنا كلُ العِشق وحتى لم نعُد نحيا كذلك، هذا الطَعمُ! خمرٌ، نستقيهِ على الدوام. ↗

— جلال الدين الرومي

#inspirational #life-philosophy #love #lovers #inspirational

الحقيقة يمكن أن تتخذ ألف شكل لأعيننا إذا اتخذنا ألف موقع نلاحظها منه .. و إن شهادة الحواس سوف تظل تنقل لنا مراتب مختلفة من الحقيقة كلها نسبية بحسب الظروف التي نشاهدها فيها .. ↗

— مصطفى محمود

#philosophy #inspirational

Falling into true love, is not taking a rope to climb out ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#inspiration #life #love #observation #philosophy

There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies. ↗

— James Runcie

#philosophy #religion #death

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. ↗

— Karl Marx

#change #ideology #philosophy #resistance #struggle

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#speech #thought #words #men

The first duty of a man is to think for himself ↗

— José Martí

#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#nihilism #philosophy #post-modernism #reality #truth

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ↗

— Mark Twain

#science