#philosophy

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#common #communism #democracy #philosophy #radical

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. ↗

— William F. Buckley

#diversity #political-philosophy #democracy

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#philosophy #first-sentence

But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair. ↗

— Jeffrey Steingarten

#humor #philosophy #art

A prison becomes a home when you have the key. ↗

— George Sterling

#conformity #philosophy #prison

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dignity #faith #haiku #heaven #human-mortality