#philosophy

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner. ↗

— Cyrus the Great

#frienship #humor #life #love #philosophy

What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all? ↗

— Joshua Emmet

#philosophy #virtue #freedom

All knowledge is worth having ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#life #philosophy #inspirational

There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#nature

All is flux ↗

— Heraclitus

#nature

The limit of a person's will, at least in one respect, is the limit of that person's ability to believe. ↗

— David Kane

#philosophy #respect

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#humanity #philosophy #religion #change

Mendel had a remarkable nature as a boy. I’m not talking about miracles. Miracles are a burden for a tzaddik, not the proof of one. Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir. There was something in Mendele. There was a fire. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#philosophy #faith

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#history #pageant #philosophy

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. ↗

— George Eliot

#even #experience #human #human experience #incongruous