#philosophy

♫ I learned a lesson today: never judge a person by the way they act, nor how they dress, or the way they have their disabilities. Because everyone on Earth suffers the same hell, whether in love or hate, life or death. ↗

— Nandanie Phalgoo

#life #philosophy #death

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#critical #existence #most #philosophy #standpoint

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#me #none #people #people say #philosophy

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#elevates #god #limits #man #narrow

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#literature #philosophy #freedom

Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#everything #fear #freedom #nothing #philosophy

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#philosophy #philosophy-of-life #progress #life

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#living #philosophy #women #life

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#life

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. ↗

— Plato

#men