#Philosophical quotes

[reverie-quotes]

Our conscience must reform by itself through the strengthening of our reason, not through the weakening of our appetites.

— Montaigne, "Of repentance"

[darkacademicletters]

the ability to see more beauty in the world is a skill. the more beauty you see, the more comes to you, the more you create yourself. so much of the disempowerment people feel is because they are trained to see the ugly and negative in everything. you have to unpick your mind from the lure of negativity and train yourself to find beauty. if you want a beautiful life, it starts with learning to find the beauty everywhere.

[quantum-bliss]

Whatever you lost will come back in a different form once you are ready.

[lindseyarchive]

[uniqueness-ev]

You go to work, joke around, take care of your family and mentally drowning in your own thoughts.. and no one knows.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

“Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease...We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.” - Charles Fourier

[anama-cara]

Freaking Donna Tartt

"And what is beauty?" "Terror."

Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything

The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulse he's worked so had to subdue.

[cogito-ergo-iperuranio]

La vita può essere capita solo all'indietro, ma va vissuta in avanti.

Søren Kierkegaard

[arguablysomaya]

"…for it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but what I do,"

-Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

[chestersbraincell]

“And then it’s over, and you’re just as hungry as when you began”

[pedrovallentin]

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"

[reverie-quotes]

I know of no quality so easy to counterfeit as piety, if conduct and life are not made to conform with it. Its essence is abstruse and occult; its semblance, easy and showy.

— Montaigne, "Of repentance"

[darkacademicletters]

quick reminder that it’s ok to say that you love reading and that reading is your passion without reading 30+ books in a year. if you connect with books and love the power of the written word, you’re bookish. you don’t need to justify your love of reading.

[quantum-bliss]

Our texts would be the most beautiful and toxic poetry that exists.

[lindseyarchive]

"All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual."

Margaret Thatcher

[uniqueness-ev]

love is hard. it is how it supposed to be. it shows who is willing to stay or just leave.