#philosophy

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object. ↗

— Henry Miller

#philosophy #beauty

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#love #philosophy #rightly #simply #wisdom

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. ↗

— John Churton Collins

#object #philosophers #philosophy #truth #truth is

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#first step #incredulity #philosophy #step #towards

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#call #features #human #human language #i

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton) ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#others #philosophy #self-awareness #susan-barton #life

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, I as sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#truths #death

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be. ↗

— William Feather

#based #behind #every #every man #man

You think because you face situations not of your making that you exercise no choice? That you are helpless? To the contrary, child. Your whole life has been full of choices. Hiding from a hard truth is a choice. Surrender - even to the inevitable - is a choice. Even in death there is a choice. You may have no control over the time or manner of your death, but you can choose how you face it. ↗

— C.L. Wilson

#death