#philosophy

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

To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life… ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#creativity #individuality #philosophy #art

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.- ↗

— Langston Hughes

#free-thought #philosophy #religion #art

I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think. ↗

— David Gerrold

#philosophy #funny

Logician: a mathematician who can’t count posing as a philosopher who can’t moralize. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #logic #philosophy #funny

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. ↗