Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses
inspirational philosophical
Don´t count the days. Make the days count.
philosophical
I suppose belief is there to prevent people from thinking.
Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.
Must this with farce and folly rack myhead unpunish'd? That with sing-song, Whine me dead?
Sometimes changing the world is as simple as changing the way you look at it.
Omnia mundi creaturaquasi liber et pictura nobis estin speculum.
If he ever changes his stance on something, it's because he's received new information.
That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.''No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
Without the quest, there can be no epiphany.
inspirational philosophical epiphany quest
There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness
philosophical philosophical-musings
I.. Having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them -- that is, I wish to destroy that by which I live.
I shall try to persuade first the Rulers and soldiers, and then the rest of the community, that the upbringing and education we have given them was all something that happened to them only in a dream. In reality they were fashioned and reared, and their arms and equipment manufactured, in the depths of the earth, and Earth herself, their mother, brought them up, when they were complete, into the light of day; so now they must think of the land in which they live as their mother and protect her if she is attacked, while their fellow citizens they must regard as brothers born of the same mother earth. That is the story. Do you know of any way of making them believe it? Not in the first generation, he said, but you might succeed with the second, and later generations.
Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.
philosophical political tired
I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? He suggested.
You have the ability to find all the answers--if you let yourself do so.
Flame is the lamp; rest is borrowed.
A book without conversation, is like a life without friends, you know it's going to end, but you want it to be soon.
Evil is done by the living.
Evil doesn't just go away.
What people had had shed and left--a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in wardrobes--those alone kept the human shape and in the emptiness indicated how once they were filled and animated; how once hands were busy with hooks and buttons; how once the looking-glass had held a face; had held a world hollowed out in which a figure turned, a hand flashed, the door opened, in came children rushing and tumbling; and went out again. Now, day after day, light turned, like a flower reflected in water, its sharp image on the wall opposite. Only the shadows of the trees, flourishing in the wind, made obeisance on the wall, and for a moment darkened the pool in which light reflected itself; or birds, flying, made a soft spot flutter slowly across the bedroom floor.
If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients seem to have had reason to decide that bringing their creations to full completion likewise required a correspondence bewteen the measure of individual elements and the appearance of the work as a whole.
Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
Aquellos de espÃritu superior entienden la justicia. Los ordinarios, el beneficio.
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