#philosophy

Peace loves war ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#love

LOOK AT MY BLOOD FLOWERS, BECAUSE I WRITE WITH A SERENE SHARP BLADE THAT SOOTHES. AS MUCH AS CUTS INTO THE DEEPEST PARTS OF MY SOUL. ↗

— Basith

#philosophy-of-life #life

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived. ↗

— George S. Patton Jr.

#war #men

If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? That there is a part of man that man wants to reject? That man wants to keep from knowing what he is? That he wants to protect himself from seeing that he is something awful? And that this 'awful' part of himself might not be as awful as he thinks, but he finds it too strange and he does not know what to do with it? We talk about what to do with the atom bomb...But man's heart, his spirit is the deadliest thing in creation. Are not all cultures and civilizations just screens which men have used to divide themselves, to put between that part of themselves which they are afraid of and that part of themselves which they wish, in their deep timidity, to try to preserve? Are not all of man's efforts at order an attempt to still man's fear of himself? ↗

— Richard Wright

#culture #fear #man #philosophy #men

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#permanent #philosophy #men

Sex is useful - for creation and control. Character becomes more important when you begin meeting men. ↗

— Michelle February

#men

All men by nature desire to know. ↗

— Aristotle

#philosophy #wisdom #men

Every given commodity fights for itself, cannot acknowledge the others, and attempts to impose itself everywhere as if it were the only one. The spectacle, then is the epic poem of this struggle, an epic which cannot be concluded by the fall of any Troy. The spectacle does not sign the praises of men and their weapons, but of commodities and their passions. In this blind struggle every commodity, pursuing its passion, unconsciously realizes something higher: the becoming-world of the commodity, which is also the becoming-commodity of the world. Thus, by means of a ruse of commodity logic, what's specific in the commodity wears itself out in the fight while the commodity-form moves toward its absolute realization. ↗

— Guy Debord

#philosophy #situationists #men

Try and avoid people who use the word "cant" regularly associate rather with those who say "can" and do ↗

— rassool jibraeel snyman

#motivational-quotes #philosophical #philosophy #philosophy-of-life #motivational

Sînt oameni cărora le este dat să guste numai otrava din lucruri, pentru care orice surpriză este o surpriză dureroasă și orice experiență un nou prilej de tortură. Dacă se va spune că această suferință își are motive subiective, ținînd de o constituție particulară, voi întreba: există un criteriu obiectiv pentru aprecierea suferinței? Cine ar putea preciza că vecinul meu suferă mai mult decît mine sau că Isus a suferit mai mult decît toți? Nu există măsură obiectivă, deoarece ea nu se măsoară după excitația exterioară sau indispoziția locală a organismului, ci după modul în care suferința este simțită și reflectată în conștiință. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#suffering #motivational