#so

She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #fact

He glared accusingly at her while he made short work of his clothes. "You didn't wake me up." She rolled her eyes as she speared a piece of sausage with her fork. "I did wake you up. Three times in fact. Each time you threw something at me and went back to sleep." Jason gaped at her. "And you gave up? You know our routine, woman. You have to keep at it until I'm forced to get off the bed to find something to throw at you. ↗

— R.L. Mathewson

#jason #playing-for-keeps #rl-mathewson #fact

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#philosophy #humans

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." [The Minotaur] ↗

— Albert Camus

#retreat #solitude #understanding

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem. ↗

— George Harrison

#peace #reason #violence #violence

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#path

If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance. ↗

— Susan Del Gatto

#problem-solving #procrastination #stress-management-maintenance #path

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes. ↗

— August Strindberg

#poison #sight #vision #vision

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#envy #equal #failure #gospel #ignorance

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

— Norman Mailer

#common #communism #democracy #philosophy #radical