#philosophy

The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#philosophy #faith

Some day people will ask me what is the key to my success...and I will simply say, "good Karma. ↗

— K. Crumley

#philosophy #karma

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? ↗

— Hillel the Elder

#self-worth #self-worth

Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak? ↗

— J.E. Seanachaí

#life-lesson #philosophy #wisdom #writing #life

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#philosophy #skepticism #virtue #well

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. ↗

— John Berger

#confines #difficulty #dog #dreams #great

My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can. ↗

— Columba Bush

#children #i #i can #i tried #life

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#buy #compromising #everyone #finding #ground

My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast. ↗

— Harry Caray

#fan #philosophy #way #whole #would

I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody? ↗

— John Zorn

#beautiful #better #better place #bringing #day