#philosophy and classics

[theidealistphilosophy]

True philosophy entails relearning to see the world anew.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics) (Volume 85).

[lenainwonderland]

- Vladimir Nabokov

[dionysian-mystery]

Wikipedia / Image from pinterest / Machiavelli / George Santayana / Thucydides / Image from pinterest / Abba - Waterloo / J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan / Fibonacci spiral / Catherynne M. Valente

[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

[prokopetz]

i was just thinking about how 90% of my obsession with Diogenes started with Tumblr memes. what if there were similar memes for other philosophers? like jean-paul Sartre or sun tzu?

There are in fact Tumblr memes about Sun Tzu, though you need to be part of fairly specific circles to get the really good ones. I'm not personally aware of any significant body of Tumblr memes about Sartre, but I won't swear on my life they don't exist.

[mysticpolin]

[joytri]

to live. to live forever.

[beluosus]

[xxrrisxx]

I can't exactly describe how I feel, but it's not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[quote-bomber]

[logophilist1982]

Art dark academia 🖤

[lenainwonderland]

- Sylvia Plath

[dionysian-mystery]

"I have led a toothless life", he thought. "A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone."

Jean-Paul Sartre

[itsclassicmee]

“I'm a master of speaking silently, all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence”.

–Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit.

[reveuseinflorence]

"Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of

day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the

light."

- Dylan Thomas

[hamoodmood]