#philosophy

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. ↗

— Mark Twain

#philosophy #religion #humor

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain! ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#inspirational #philosophy #truth #war #wisdom

May you live every day of your life. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#life #philosophy #wisdom #inspirational

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#life #philosophy #inspirational

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#inspirational #life #philosophy #inspirational

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

#dead #dumb #history #me #philosophy

Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life. ↗

— René Descartes

#happiness #philosophy #purpose #thinking #beauty

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#came #could #creating #ever #grassroots

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#any #because #being #fleeting #founded

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#approaching #fortieth #i #life #made