#thro

You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#design #god #rabbits #design

Selective literalism' is another attempt in a very long line of techniques designed and intended to shape God into our own image". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#literalism #r-alan-woods #selective-literalism #design

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#throne #world

Don't let what's happened spoil your life; it doesn't have to. If help is offered, take it if you want it. But in the end, find the strength to take hold of your own life and make what you want of it. Even the bad dreams fade in time. ↗

— P D James

#dreams

I’ve noticed in my life that the people who act as my angels are not some strange angelic creatures that seem almost untouchable, but are more real than that. They are people who have tasted sorrow, who have felt pain, and in a way, that makes them capable of being an angel. In their darkest moments they have become strong. ↗

— The Hippie

#sorrow #strength-through-adversity #life

I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autism #oliver-sacks #life

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#game-of-thrones #george-r-r-martin #life

...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life. ↗

— Pentti Linkola

#misanthrope #noremorse #overpopulation #life

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves. ↗

— Aberjhani

#celebrities #famous-authors #famous-poets #gratitude #hope

Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk? ↗

— Gerard Way

#gun #hate #love #my-chemical-romance #my-way-home-is-through-you