#provoking

A worst thing is thinking about health who show interest in non-vegetarian ↗

— Raghava

#thought-provoking

Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference? (pg. 113) ↗

— Mary E. Pearson

#thought-provoking

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify? ↗

— Milan Kundera

#mystery #thought-provoking #inspirational

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? ↗

— Ann Druyan

#carl-sagan #inspirational #science #theology #thought-provoking

I shake my head. I can't imagine living the way he does-always keeping track of who gave me what and what I should give them in return, incapable of love or loyalty or forgiveness, a one-eyed man with a knife in hand, looking fr someone else's eye to poke out. That isn't life. It's some paler version of life. I wonder where he learned if from. p. 395 ↗

— Veronica Roth

#forgiveness

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless. ↗

— Bilal Hussain

#inspirational #philosophy #science #technology #thought-provoking

Futures can and do change, something as simple as you're supposed to turn right down a street one day... In your bones u know it, and yet for reasons no one understands, you decide to debunk fate and go left. Now instead of meeting your spouse of your dreams and having a house full of kids, you get flattened by an ice-cream truck and spend the next 5 years in physical therapy recovering from the injuries; or worse you die from it. And all cause you exercised free will and turned the opposite way on a whim. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#make-you-think #thought-provoking #change

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. ↗

— Martin Kippenberger

#i #interested #not interested #only #people

Lead us not into temptation' often means, among other things, 'Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in the brilliant movements of our age, which I so often, at such risk, desire.' Reflections on the Psalms, ch 7 ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#age

Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#doing #either #everybody #goal #hates