#philosophy

We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#memories #philosophy #life

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#god #life #philosophy #spiritual #wisdom

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen ↗

— René Descartes

#life

If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair? ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#life

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith. ↗

— José Saramago

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Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason ↗

— Paul Tillich

#faith

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves! ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#childbirth #christianity #expectation #family-planning #happiness

[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

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