#philosophy

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#consolation #different #different perspective #float #manage

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#clear #complicated #good #good reason #many

Together, "Light and Knowledge" are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable. ↗

— William Bailey

#science #death

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

A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet. ↗

— E.J. Koh

#death #family #fantasy #love #philosophy

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#bad #economy #fighting #got #i

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#consists #dog #forget #hate #iniquity

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object. ↗

— Henry Miller

#philosophy #beauty

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#attitudes #creative #does #element #eliminated

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#earlier #evolved #filmmaker #films #how