#Philosophy quotes

[philosophors]

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

— Ernest Hemingway

[academic-vampire]

“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

[theshadowworker]

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are

- Carl Jung

[urmomswifesworld]

[diaryofaphilosopher]

The pursuit of full humanity, however, cannot be carried out in isolation or individualism, but only in fellowship and solidarity; therefore it cannot unfold in the antagonistic relations between oppressors and oppressed. No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so. Attempting to be more human, individualistically, leads to having more, egotistically, a form of dehumanization.

— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

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[literarylumin]

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love.

- Albert Camus, The Plague

[logophilist1982]

I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach you again.

-Arthur miller ( the crucible )

[wethepoems]

[thesorcerersapprentice]

For my part, I have found that, when I wish to write a book on some subject, I must first soak myself in detail, until all the separate parts of the subject-matter are familiar; then, someday, if I am fortunate, I perceive the whole, with all its parts duly interrelated. After that, I only have to write down what I have seen. The nearest analogy is first walking all over a mountain in a mist, until every path and ridge and valley is separately familiar, and then, from a distance, seeing the mountain whole and clear in bright sunshine.

— Bertrand Russell, The History of Western Philosophy.

[usefulquotes7]

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” — Samuel Johnson

[philosophors]

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.”

— Carl Jung

[evolvingmonkey]

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”

~ Franz Kafka

[theshadowworker]

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole

- Carl Jung

[coruscatingdust]

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The immersive nature of self-as-object processing is manifest in the way we typically do not regard our thoughts as just thoughts.

Rather, we implicitly or explicitly take this mental activity to reflect reality more or less accurately.

It can be morally and epistemically problematic when people do not recognize that their perceptions and beliefs is in fact, a model —schematic or working hypothesis about reality rather than reality itself.

People are incontrovertibly egocentric, self-relevant information is preferentially processed and remembered, and people strive to protect their self-views to the point that they selectively seek confirmatory evidence and otherwise distort reality.

[diaryofaphilosopher]

Self-depreciation is another characteristic of the oppressed, which derives from their internalization of the opinion the oppressors hold of them. So often do they hear that they are good for nothing, know nothing and are incapable of learning anything−that they are sick, lazy, and unproductive−that in the end they become convinced of their own unfitness.

— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

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[literarylumin]

When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid; it can't last long.' But though a war may well be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

- Albert Camus, The Plague