#philosophy

The square root of I is I. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#philosophy #self #ego

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#philosophy #pessimism

The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation. ↗

— Osman Bakar

#islam #metaphysics #philosophy #intelligence

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christ #christianity #god #jesus

Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating... ↗

— CM Punk

#life-philosophy #life

Pues nada ha sido nunca para un hombre o una sociedad humana más insoportable que la libertad. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#political-philosophy #freedom

True, life is complex. But so are a great many accidents. ↗

— Foz Meadows

#life #philosophy #life

What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#philosophy #reality #life

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself. ↗

— Neil Postman

#technology #utilitarianism #age